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Tarot Readers in This Moment: “For Entertainment Purposes Only”
We are at a perilous moment for our democracy and our country’s future. We live in a rapidly changing society where information can become increasingly difficult to find. The government under Donald Trump is attempting to take us into an authoritarian state, where there is complete control of the information space. It is in this environment that people seek alternative sources of information. In some ways, people also look for signs of hope. Because this matters, we have had trust issues with mainstream information sources for years, if not decades. This is part of Russian and other information warfare. Some of this is also internal.
We saw this with the Far Right throughout the last almost fifty years; they built an alternate information space. It is partly a consequence of the Watergate scandal. The far right was right. If there were an alternate media, we likely would have avoided the consequences of the scandal, including the resignation of President Richard Nixon. So, the first inroad into this information space was Fox News; the rest is history.
This far-right media noise machine led to a point where we live in different echo chambers, one where facts are opposed. This is especially dangerous in a democracy that relies on a standard set of facts. Mind you, we have been here before, though never this…