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"It’s very easy to blame all your economic problems on foreigners.
It’s simple to think the reason you can’t get a girlfriend is because all women
are the devil incarnate.
It’s no biggie to assume people are poor because they don’t work hard enough.
These ideas sit within what I call
Trumpian Thinking, named after, naturally,
the 45th president of the USA.
Trumpian Thinking is our predilection for creating too simple answers — based
on biases and prejudices — to extremely complex problems.
Easy. Digestible.
Tweetable (or is that X-able?).
The internet loves Trumpian Thinking from all sides of the political and
cultural spectrum. It thrives on sweeping statements without much thought
behind them because you’re guaranteed to either incense or encourage big
swathes of the population. And that means plenty of the online world’s most
precious commodity.
Clicks.
What the internet is less concerned with is what Trumpian Thinking is doing to
us. To society. To our interactions.
To our
humanity.
Because it ain’t good, folks."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
