{"id":226102,"date":"2018-12-12T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T09:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=226102"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T09:41:13","slug":"being-nice-is-the-new-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=226102","title":{"rendered":"Being nice is the new punk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On social media, accusations of fascism are flung from left and right like confetti. Culture war terminology, most of it unpleasant, has seeped into the collective consciousness. &#8216;Gammon&#8217; and &#8216;gaslight&#8217; were both shortlisted as candidates for the Collins dictionary word of 2018. Outrage marketing, horrifically, is an actual thing.<\/p>\n<p>The degradation of civility online happened at startling speed. This is mostly due to algorithms. Social media sites give prominence to content that generates a significant amount of engagement in a short period of time. The consequence is that people who want their messages to be widely seen need to frame them in the most provocative way possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Punk today would oppose the current zeitgeist, fight the establishment and not sell out. And that means&#8230; being polite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>State of 2018: outrage!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/comment-analysis\/2018\/11\/21\/being-nice-is-the-new-punk\">Being nice is the new punk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On social media, accusations of fascism are flung from left and right like confetti. Culture war terminology, most of it unpleasant, has seeped into the collective consciousness. &#8216;Gammon&#8217; and &#8216;gaslight&#8217; were both shortlisted as candidates for the Collins dictionary word of 2018. Outrage marketing, horrifically, is an actual thing. The degradation of civility online happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226105,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226102\/revisions\/226105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}