Repost: Media and social media perpetual “outrage culture”
I posted this previously on November 17, 2016. Social media and media messaging have turned our entire world into a culture of perpetual outrage: We have a media system that loves to yell and scream. It is basically its default setting. Forget deliberation and civil discourse, it goes immediately to outrage and cynical condescension, or in other cases, relentless and unprovoked shaming. And we, as the consumers and residents of this culture, have come to confuse all this noise and…