Nothing New

I, RoundSparrow, am specifically NOT doing groundbreaking work in Media Ecology. The entire point is to do what Rick Roderick in 1993 "Self Under Siege" lectures described as genealogy of history... or what much of what James Burke did with his various presentations, "Connections".

Neil Postman's 1985 "Amusing Ourselves to Death" is the truth of USA since 2014. It has proven to not be a fad or a fshion season, the social Inforation Systems change since 2014 has proven to be a strong and overwhelming trend.

1. Acceptance of enshitification. Low-effort junk noise. That was called out early on, in 2014.

2. Friends and neighbors flocking to Fox News unlike anything before, as the "surround-sound meme" effect took hold with Cambridge Analytica and Putin media invasion.

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