Profiteering from Polarization
In America competing world-views have existed in society without rampant rudeness or outbreaks of violence. Why then do media elites then insist that society is dangerously polarized?
In the United States competing world-views have been commonplace throughout the nation’s history.
And with the exception of the civil war, Americans with different beliefs have long lived next to one another with little discord or conflict.
Protestants neighbor Catholics.
Muslims worship in the same neighborhoods as Jews.
And in real life Republicans even have coffee with Democrats.
In America everyone can find a way to get along.
Except for members of the media.
Members of the media sow the seeds of discontent to later profit off of the tribes they sort people into.
In fact by sorting people into two predominant tribes the media can profit off the ensuing conflict just as they made money from people watching their COVID coverage during the lockdowns.
As a result of this civil society is suffering from a collective, albeit still mostly harmless, fear of non-partisanship and friendship across party aisles.
And it’s the slow onset of this public fear, not the polarization boogeyman, that will tear our nation apart by gradually eroding the public’s trust in one another.
Of course perhaps that’s part of the plan. For when civil society is shambles it’ll be that much easier for the elite to have the masses do their mindless bidding for substantial profits.
Zigmund Reichenbach holds a M.A. in Philosophy from West Chester University. You can find him commenting on news stories of national and state interest at his Facebook page Zigmund Reichenbach -- Commentator or you can follow him on Twitter @zreichenbach1. Additionally you can find episodes of the weekly Sunday podcast (4PM) that airs via Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter at this link here.
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