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Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy bacon
When getting attention on social media became more important than passinggoodany laws. When your side (the royal you, not Mattola) winning became more important than the actual facts, data, relevant arguments, and, ya know, the general fucking welfare of the populace as a whole. When we put a device in our pocket with all of the knowledge of civilization inside it, and we used it to watch cat videos, imagine ourselves as content experts, and found information that confirmed our own biases (even the really stupid ones!) instead of informing or challenging them.
I could write a lot more about it, but that's it in a nutshell.
The decline of western civilization didn't take long to document. That's a little depressing.
I recently was watching a twitter video from a few years ago where Mark Carney (former governor of the Bank of Canada) was speaking and he gave a very eloquent talk. There is some talk that people want him to take over for Justin Trudeau, but I don't think he's interested in the job. At any rate, the majority of comments weren't about his speech content, but rather his delivery and how dry and boring it was.
That's the thing, politics these days is all about the sizzle and very few care about the steak (had to work in another steak reference). It's all about likes, re-tweets and mentions and very little to do with actual policies.