A return to faith in serious experts.
Less reliance on Facebook knowledge, more vigilance about false/non-credentialed "experts"
I can only pray this is true. When white folks started rallying around Trump with such odd fanaticism based off of wild conspiracies of Obama's birthplace I was shocked to see this nonsense--among many conspiracies about Obama, Clinton, Democrats--being validated and believed by so many people. But when much of these crazy conspiracies began resonating with the black community via YouTube and Twitter "thought leaders," the likes of Tariq Nasheed, Yvette Carnell, Prof Black Truth, or whatever flavor of the month TLR clowns are calling "new black media"--a collective of "pro-black" orators who rely largely on conspiracies about Democrats, immigrants, minorities, the mainstream media, and liberals working towards the downfall of "black American descendant of slaves" specifically--I knew right there we are living through a troubling generational gap. Aged, influential, peer-reviewed knowledge and scholarship is being dismissed in favor of a phony "grassroots" social media knowledge. A bunch of charlatans who have found careers in engineering rank ignorance into psuedo-intellectualism to the mental stimulation of a simple minded mass audience they would have never been able to reach before have overtaken political discourse for the worse of society. The fact these scammers are not trusted or acknowledged by distinguished pros in politics, activism and history makes them even more appealing to their cult-like audience who become determined to zero out all information coming from outside their thought leaders, as intended.
This rapid and visible regression of true intellectualism and knowledge is scary and speaks to the crisis' we are living through.
In an ideal world the media would've never even entertained Trump's run for President the moment he kicked it off with unfounded, racist conspiracies about Barack Obama. He should have been written off as a racist conspiracy theorist looking for some fifteen minutes of fame and nothing more while the media focuses on more legitimate campaigns. It should've disqualified him off the rip but it's the sort of provocateur we feel we have to treat as legitimate news nowadays because people go on damn Twitter and give these scammers and conspiracies enough of an audience to be deemed "newsworthy." And in an ideal world black folks would turn off their phones and return to libraries, institutions and scholarship for guidance on black activism and history, not a bunch of social media personalities.
Instead here we are today, Donald Trump is President of the United States, and a bunch of YouTubers telling us to make political gains by not bothering to vote and passively supporting Trump are now the intellectual thought leaders of the black community, at least on the internet. shyt has to end with the Coronavirus. We shouldn't be falling for this crap, especially with such convenience timing.
Regulatory barriers to online tools will fall.
TELEWORKING WILL become mainstream after this, mark my words
A healthier digital lifestyle.
Digital influencers/celebrities will rely less on centralized communication mediums and utilize a more "streamer-esque" approach to outreach
This is a double edged sword I think most people don't realize. A whole lot of Americans are realizing this past month that, "wow," turns out it is very possible and very practical to work from home without the burden of going into a workplace...but a whole lot of corporations are saying the exact same thing. Don't be shocked and be prepared for the next big "working mans" civil rights struggle of the digital age. We'll be wishing for the good old days back when we were (for the most part) fully entitled to a work-life balance. Once "calling out sick" takes on a whole new meaning in this post-coronavirus streaming/digital/teleworking world people are nt gonna be as happy as they expect.
Nah breh you been in TLR? they gonna be going on forever, especially as long as social media exists.