Fair, this isn’t a confident claim from me. I do have a sense that the last decade has been particularly bad in terms of blatant preference falsification, but it’s hard to distinguish “the world was different before then” from “I was younger and didn’t have a great sense of what was going on”.
I’m 62, so I was adult in the ’80s and ’90s. My sense is that the world was different. The consequences of expressing divergent opinion seem much more serious now.
(Disagree that it was a tenable position a decade or two ago, agree that it is an untenable position now)
Fair, this isn’t a confident claim from me. I do have a sense that the last decade has been particularly bad in terms of blatant preference falsification, but it’s hard to distinguish “the world was different before then” from “I was younger and didn’t have a great sense of what was going on”.
I’m 62, so I was adult in the ’80s and ’90s. My sense is that the world was different. The consequences of expressing divergent opinion seem much more serious now.
Can you say what position you recommend instead? Is it just opining publicly about everything, with no regard to how taboo it is?