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What Will Be Unacceptable In 100 Years?
A piq to draw your attention to a new "non news" news site that launched in the UK last week. It’s called Unherd and aims to “appeal to people who instinctively refuse to follow the herd and also want to investigate ‘unheard’ ideas, individuals and communities”. I was a bit unsure of its independence (it is backed by a hedge fund and run by the founder of right-wing political website ConservativeHome). But I was interested to see how this new outlet would take shape and whether it would really break filter bubbles as it announced it would.
I liked one idea they showcased so far. It is a series in which their contributors ask what commonplace attitudes or practices today would be unacceptable in 100 years. Some of the "next century outrage" they started off with included things like "eating meat" and "plastic". There were definitely some controversial ones (including "daycare" and "marriage"). I found myself disagreeing with many of the simplifications and sweeping generalisations, but I guess that might prove the point of filter bubble breaking to some extent.
I’ll keep an eye on the blog over the next weeks. Meanwhile, it’s an interesting question to ask yourself: what do we do now that we’ll look back and shake our heads about in disbelief? And, if we can think of such things, what does it say about us if we keep doing them?
