Most people don't even now what a dark-eyed junco is nowadays, the numbers have dropped dramatically.
That explosion isn't real, it's not actually filmed at night, actors didn't really get shot, isn't filmed in real time.
If you have to start editing the movie yourself, to make it watchable, some story teller isn't doing their job. I guess we're at the Ikea point of 'movies', some assembly required.
Who watches movies anymore? Costs a fortune, theater is dirty, people are annoying, food is overpriced, show times are inconvenient, ...
At home you can just choose another movie to watch, pick another video.
This is what Zizek is talking about, currently law and order is only used to protect the statue quo of right wing people, because the left has given up and is too scared to use the police force.
Take the example of loud cars and motorcycles. It's typically right wing people that drive such cars. The police don't bother to do anything because the police sympathize with them. It would be nice if a left wing candidate said we are going to put funding to hire extra police, to confiscate all the loud cars and motorcycles bothering the good average people of the city. But, the left wing politicians are too scared to use such power.
That's the problem, the only people shouting for law and order are the right wing authoritarians.
The left has giving up on poor communities, they have no plan. This is also why people in such communities have stopped voting. No one really addresses the issue they have. Many times it's simply a few thugs, that should go to jail, everyone knows who they are, they terrorize a neighborhood , and never seem to get busted.
The left speaks of police reform, but gives no examples of how to accomplish it.
'start over from scratch' is not an option. Many of the other ideas that the left has for reforming the police, such as extra training for soft skills, don't really work. I just don't hear any good ideas. That's the issue, the left really doesn't put out a comprehensive plan for policing communities that needs it.
I think the argument is, if the left abandons law and order, the right will fill the vacuum with authoritarianism. I believe this.
We are not going to de-fund the police. In Ontario the right wing Ford government has reduced the educational requirements of people entering the police force, this is a blatant attempt to keep the police racist and sexist. The left leaning parties have no interest or plans on how to recruit or train the police. The vacuum, means that right wing parties push to get what they want, an authoritarian police force.
I'm not right wing, but I do enjoy occasionally listing to Theodore Dalrymple, mostly because he worked in prisons, and draws on his experience. He argues along the lines Zizek wrote here.
Seriously, this is why modern cars suck, and cost a fortune.
Also, the devil in in the details. How will the voting process work?
I curbed my use of Reddit about a month ago. I started getting low quality right-wing posts in my feed. Maybe it was an algorithm trying to egg me on, but it had the opposite effect and I left.
When all the A+ student's leave (moderators doing the work, people writing good comments), the class goes on, but in a diminished form. It'll be a slow decline.
kbin.social feels lively. Reddit just feels like a mine field of trolls/bots/conspiracies.
Google, ChatGPT, and all those language models are going to have a very hard time with this. People will change their old comments to random nonsense, so search results that use Reddit will become random nonsense.
Bots voting out the humans.
Someone will buy Reddit, doesn't they'll care about the company. People buy companies to kill them off. The stock market is not a rational creature.
This will make Reddit worse. Some people will start to edit their comments to make them nonsense. Trust will erode further. Search will slowly become nonfunctional.
From a users perspective, coming across a nonsensical thread (because comments have been edited), is much worse than see deleted comments. Not only does trust disappear people, but people become angry that the comments are outright random/bizarre/lies.
Mine are back as well! WOW, talk about being a scummy company.