{"id":17219,"date":"2025-01-12T07:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T06:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/elon-musk-and-the-new-world-order-the-hijacking-of-the-global-conversation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T07:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T06:37:58","slug":"elon-musk-and-the-new-world-order-the-hijacking-of-the-global-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/elon-musk-and-the-new-world-order-the-hijacking-of-the-global-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising \u2013 and polarising \u2013 influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselves<\/p>\n<p>How should we as a society interact with one another, debate, come to decisions? What impels politicians to focus and act on one thing and not another?<\/p>\n<p>The Athenians had the Agora, where (male, slave-owning) citizens gathered to debate and decide the issues of the day. In the early 20th century, John Reith envisioned the BBC, in a most patrician way, as a space where the nation could come together to enhance the (supposedly) British values of democracy, reasonableness and debate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/12\/elon-musk-and-the-new-world-order-the-hijacking-of-the-global-conversation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9ea543674e9e0c2936c75e7747afe126be1512a9\/785_608_5628_3377\/master\/5628.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bf02f6aad76250a4642570ee504bc0cc\" title=\"Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation\" \/>How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising \u2013 and polarising \u2013 influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselves<br \/>\nHow should we as a society interact with one another, debate, come to decisions? What impels politicians to focus and act on one thing and not another?<br \/>\nThe Athenians had the Agora, where (male, slave-owning) citizens gathered to debate and decide the issues of the day. In the early 20th century, John Reith envisioned the BBC, in a most patrician way, as a space where the nation could come together to enhance the (supposedly) British values of democracy, reasonableness and debate. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising \u2013 and polarising \u2013 influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselves How should we as a society interact with one another, debate, come to decisions? What impels politicians to focus and act on one thing and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/elon-musk-and-the-new-world-order-the-hijacking-of-the-global-conversation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}