Could Covid Bring Us Closer Together?
One of the key takeaways from the Netflix documentary ‘The Social Dilemma’ is the argument that social media is acting to endlessly reinforce and polarise the opinions that we believe we have formed ourselves. Increasingly, we are living in a world of rigid binary opposition, where any opinion held is automatically adversarial. Tentative opinions voiced on Twitter, by the unwary, unleash the dogs of war. Rather than recognising stereotypes and deconstructing them, social media endlessly reinforces them so that each of us is, to someone else, an abhorrent incarnation of all that is hateful. Shared values are as endangered as our climate; we are choking in a toxic atmosphere of blame and hatred.
