Blame presumes guilt. There's no guilt in voting for your interests, even if others don't understand them.

Reasons for those voting decisions are interesting, but also very hard to get since the media ignores everything between the coasts, and even the diverse internet is so full of filter bubbles that you're basically funneled straight into echo chambers. At least on my end, the Silicon Valley/Hollywood culture is drowning out everything else -- and I'm a commie outsider who doesn't give a shit about celebrities or "save zones".

That said, the election is just the most recent culmination of an ongoing, decades-long development. But that's beyond the point, so...

Populism trumps business as usual if business as usual leads to Detroit, Cleveland and Camden. Or the rural areas on the coast of Louisiana, which were hit much harder than New Orleans and still look worse than Chernobyl, 11 years after the fact.

So the question is: did you a) fail to provide an alternative, b) fail to make a convincing case for that alternative, c) decide against trying to convince those that think differently, or d) not even realize that not everybody shares your perception of reality.

Given the tone of the reactions, the collective damnation of Trump voters as (insert any insult in the book), I'm thinking that d) is a much bigger issue than anyone is willing to admit.

In short, I blame George R. R. Martin. If he had published The Winds of Winter by now, all would be well.

Back before Google bought youtube and added a personal filter bubble, you used to be able to just keep clicking the recommended videos until you ended up on the weird side of youtube... that always used to throw up a few gems.

It's much harder now... but your approach is a good approximation. Watch a video, work out what keywords would find it, do a search for recent videos with those keywords.

Preferably in an incognito window to dial back the filter bubble a notch.

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Great talk. It is a dupe, though.

I can't call it, because I posted the original.

http://videosift.com/video/Filter-Bubbles-The-Unseen-Censorship

>> ^enoch:

the flow and exchange of ideas is vital and one of the reasons the sift is one of my favorite sites to visit and contribute.
where is the fun in seeing the same flavor with no opposing view or argument?
thats when it becomes one big circle jerk and everyone squats in their own putrid righteousness.
i prefer that my opinions and conclusions are challenged rather than parroted.
to do otherwise is to stagnate.


I disagree, with the sole intent of proving your point.

Thanks! I have noticed various people falling off my FB page since watching this -- I make a point to go to their page and "like" something once in awhile so I keep them as friends.

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Not specifically a dupe but this exact same talk was given in this Ted Talks post.
It uses the same duologue and photo references as the original post that went to number 2 on the sift already.

http://videosift.com/video/Filter-Bubbles-The-Unseen-Censorship

@lucky760: Still empty. And I think TheGenk referred to this.

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