I was scanning the headlines from a magazine I’ve recently taken interest in and noticed how many social buzzwords it had. Imposter syndrome. Diversity. Quiet Quitting. Obsessions about race and sex. <\/p>\n
It got me wondering (for the millionth time) which came first. Is the public actually preoccupied with these topics, and the media is dutifully covering them, or is the media creating obsessions by endlessly framing issues from a certain point of view? <\/p>\n
The answer is obviously “both” — it almost always is — but “both” doesn’t mean one isn’t dominant. <\/p>\n
My strong suspicion is that it works this way. Some small group of socially connected, elite types get obsessed with some issue. Media elites rub shoulders with that crowd, so they pick up those attitudes. “This is the new thing that everybody<\/i> is talking about.” That filters down into the newspapers, magazines, silly TV talk shows, etc., and then becomes the new thing that “everybody” is talking about. <\/p>\n
I stand athwart this nonsense. I won’t play. I try hard not<\/i> to use the hip new words and phrases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was scanning the headlines from a magazine I’ve recently taken interest in and noticed how many social buzzwords it had. Imposter syndrome. Diversity. Quiet Quitting. Obsessions about race and sex. It got me wondering (for the millionth time) which came first. Is the public actually preoccupied with these topics, and the media is dutifully … Continue reading “All the preoccupations fit to print”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}