Bernie v Hillary. Here is what is interesting to me. This is a prime example of two opposing political narratives dictating people's realities. One side says 'Clinton has won: this fact is incontrovertible and here is the evidence." The other side says: "No one has won. This fact is incontrovertible and here is the evidence." Both facts cannot be true.
It is not dislike of Clinton, fear of Trump or hesitance about Bernard Sanders that is driving the debate. It is the friction of two different and opposing realities that is driving it. It's a war of ideas.
I've seen this phenomenon in recent years mainly in political square-offs between the USA and Russia. (Ukraine, Syria.) It's literally like there are two different realities and the pushers of both realities believe in them so fervently that any contradiction of that reality results in a crisis for the True Believer.
This is how the Age of Information changes systems. Because reality is dictated by information. And no one is controlling the information(and who wants it to?) What is the end game of the human race where all information equals propaganda and is ultimately, I would argue, nothing but an illusion?
We keep our firm grip on the rudder, steadily aimed for home, but what we don't realize is that the sea is full of bubbles and we sank a long time ago.
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