The Age of Denial

[Diaryofamadwoman]

I caught this programme on radio 4 last week and listened to all the episodes - originally broadcast a couple of years ago. It's up next, it was very interesting, just wondered if anyone else had caught this. Examines tribalism and the roots of science denial. Asks if the children of the digital revolution will tackle denialism differently.....hm.

While it focuses on vaccine hesitancy or refusal and climate science, genderism is a glaring omission in this (obviously, bbc) programme. Years from now when this bubble has burst we will be studying how the world went mad on this.

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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000357l

Episode 1
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00036l2

@Diaryofamadwoman

I caught this programme on radio 4 last week and listened to all the episodes - originally broadcast a couple of years ago. It's up next, it was very interesting, just wondered if anyone else had caught this. Examines tribalism and the roots of science denial. Asks if the children of the digital revolution will tackle denialism differently.....hm.

While it focuses on vaccine hesitancy or refusal and climate science, genderism is a glaring omission in this (obviously, bbc) programme. Years from now when this bubble has burst we will be studying how the world went mad on this.

The BBC keeps doing this. I've heard numerous discussions on young people and their problems and mental health and they never once touch on the 'trans/non-binary' identification/puberty blockers/mastectomy issue that is currently gripping so many families with teenage and even younger children right now, including several I know. There is going to be so much fury about this in the years to come.

Very interesting, thanks OP. Like you say, gender issues is a glaring omission, and you can see so many parallels.

When they talked about climate change deniers being one step away from actually agreeing that it is happening, but admitting that they just don't care, because that would mean doing something about it - so true. There is so much choosing not to see, and I guess in some circumstances it's just easier to ignore than to feel compelled to act on information.

And then social media allows many young people to exist in their constructed world of 100 genders and reality denial and being whatever you want to be, and how freeing they probably find that, without having to really face external questioning.