https://fixthenews.com/end-of-inevitability/
"I've given it time. I've let it settle. I've tried to explain it to friends,
but I'm still lying in bed each night thinking about NATO and kids being
deported and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and as each
day passes, the same pundits who were so wrong about what would happen insist
they have an answer for why it happened, and a dread I can't put into words
squeezes a little tighter around my chest.
The takes keep rolling in. It was inflation. It was incumbency fatigue. It was
the podcasts, it was Latinos, it was young men, it was white women, it was a
lack of authenticity, it was Biden's arrogance and the Democratic party losing
touch with middle America and the weaponisation of the information sphere and
the triumph of a regressive idea of masculinity. The columnists furiously slice
and dice bad data, searching for an explanation that confirms their priors. As
if understanding it will somehow make it less real.
Viewed from abroad though, there's something none of them are saying, something
that cuts to the bone of how we make sense of the world. For those of us who
have built our lives around facts and data, around careful analysis and
rational thinking, this election forces us to confront the most inconvenient
truth of all - that no matter how good your argument, and how much evidence you
marshal in its support, people don't believe what they see; they see what they
believe."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
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
