![]() Consumerism ate up all social movements there is a straight line from reality TV to populism to fake news. When Pope or priesthood, Buddha, Marx or Keynes no longer tell you what to believe, when globalised trade or the EU fail to save your life, when national politicians are weak and worse, boring, you are left with four things to make up your mind: nostalgia, your friends and neighbours, mass consumption and mass media. The so-called post-truth era emerged from a period characterised by secularisation and the end of a society divided into social silos. ![]() ![]() Associations, as organised advocates for communities of interests, are part of the problem and could be part of the solution. Increasingly, people only trust “people like themselves”. At the same time, the gap between “well-informed” and “differently informed” people yawns ever wider.
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