Society Is Fragmented & That's Ok
For most of history, most people didn’t have a “worldview” based on anything other than what their local leaders wanted them to know. In the era of early civilizations along the Niles, the Tigris & Euphrates, to the Indus or the Yellow River, any information was between elites & only got passed on to the population in terms that the elites believed was in their interest. Terrible news often reached the general population, but what happened 20 miles from where a person lived wasn’t “news”. Diplomacy wasn’t at all a concern for most people.
This remained the same for centuries to come. Few citizens of the Roman Empire had any clue that Constantine was allowing Germanic tribes to settle on the Empire’s side of the Rhine, until well after it happened. Fortunately, public opinion polls weren’t a thing at the time.
This dynamic of elites controlling the narrative on distant events didn’t really change until the era of the telegraph. Suddenly, reporters could get a scoop on far off events by “earning” the cooperation of a telegraph operator.
“The great men of the country are greater slaves than the negroes of the South; they are slaves to every newspaper, telegraph operator.”
https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/sixteen-months-to-sumter/newspaper-index/muscatine-daily-review/the-corruption-of-the-press
Fast forward to the age of the Internet. Everyone can get every bit of news from everywhere. You can choose to react to that news however you want. But, in this new era you may want to consider who is putting this news in front of your social media feed.
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