How does obvious harm get erased in real time?
New TikTok on the psychology of silence.
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Lukman Saeed Jibril on "Coerced Work: Macroprocesses and Microrealities — The Labour Problem in Infrastructural Development in Northern Nigeria, 1902-1929.

Discussant: Stefano Bellucci @unileiden.bsky.social

The medium became the message, but the message got scrambled. TikTok taught people to live in 15-second hyperpersonal microrealities, then asked them to vote on a shared reality. That's like herding cats through a wormhole.

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The medium became the message, but the message got scrambled. TikTok taught people to live in 15-second hyperpersonal microrealities, then asked them to vote on a shared reality. That's like herding cats through a wormhole.

This really feels like a loss for an objective shared reality. I don't know how to go forward from here. What is the point in facts if we all live in our own microrealities. Lies are easier than the truth and I don't see how we can change that.