RE: https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/116018242921016843
I like this! The Kardashian scale for evaluating how out of touch with reality a planetary civilization is (by analogy with the Kardashev scale).
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@cstross
So where on the scale is Idiocracy?
@cstross How do we lower it?
@madengineering @cstross Good question. I think a good start is doing the opposite of what the Trump administration has been doing.
Funding science. Funding education. Funding public television and radio. Basing health care policy on science and truth.
These are kinda boring bread and butter things that prop up reality based institutions, but they worked!
I'm not a historian, but I feel it has been anomalous for the USA to care about science and stuff. The atomic bomb caused a big temporary
@isaackuo @madengineering Also: regulate all mass media. This includes social media as well as TV/radio/etc, and means putting a strict choke-chain on advertising and promotion (including algorithms) rather than direct censorship of content. The existence of dedicated propaganda channels that gamify content and/or use pushbutton outrage to keep eyes-on-ads is deadly to public understanding.
@cstross @isaackuo @madengineering I once worked on a small part of that problem space for the US State Dept. we had a lot of constraints on what we could do. I always wished to try doing more, something much more ambitious out in private sector. longterm we need buy-in from voters and legislators to put in place the legal upgrades needed