'caught in a trap, we can't go on together...'

[Nearly Sane]

Interesting interview with Zygmunt Bauman

http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/19/inenglish/1453208692_424660.html

[Gonnagle]

Dear Sane,

Hours of thinking in just that one little article.

 

We could describe what is going on at the moment as a crisis of democracy, the collapse of trust: the belief that our leaders are not just corrupt or stupid, but inept.

The Tory party in action, or are we corrupt, stupid and inept.

We could describe what is going on at the moment as a crisis of democracy, the collapse of trust:

My trust in politicians collapsed at the start of the Independence debate.

“Most people use social media not to open their horizons wider, but to lock themselves in a comfort zone”

Are we all on this forum locked in our comfort zones

. Pope Francis, who is a great man, gave his first interview after being elected to Eugenio Scalfari, an Italian journalist who is also a self-proclaimed atheist. It was a sign: real dialogue isn’t about talking to people who believe the same things as you. Social media don’t teach us to dialogue because it is so easy to avoid controversy… But most people use social media not to unite, not to open their horizons wider, but on the contrary, to cut themselves a comfort zone where the only sounds they hear are the echoes of their own voice, where the only things they see are the reflections of their own face. Social media are very useful, they provide pleasure, but they are a trap.

Echoes of my own voice, I don't think I do or am I pretending I want good honest debate

Good article, much to mull over.

Gonnagle.

[Hope]

Dear Sane,

Hours of thinking in just that one little article.

 
The Tory party in action, or are we corrupt, stupid and inept.

In the context, I suspect that Baumann has been thinking about this for some time, and is not only thinking about governments, but authorities as a whole.    After all, did the SNP, or UKIP, or the Lib Dems, or Labour or the Tories foresee the upheaval in gobal economics that occurred in the middle of the noughties, say 10 years earlier?  If not, why not?  Was it because they had their eyes on other things that, in the wider picture were less important?

My trust in politicians collapsed at the start of the Independence debate.

Mine had already fallen through the floor by long before Blair took us to war agin Iraq.

Good article, much to mull over.

Gonnagle.

Agreed, even on the basis of skim-reading it.