The politics of ‘toxic infotainment’: When the destiny of nations becomes a digital plaything

In a world that increasingly consumes its political catastrophes as daily blockbuster thrillers, Financial Times columnist Jemima Kelly recently provided a searing psychological autopsy of what she termed “Trump’s many unhappy returns.” Kelly argues that the Western political landscape has fallen into a state of “psychological stagnation.” Major political shocks have degenerated into a monotonous, repetitive ritual, inducing a sense of weariness and moral fatigue rather than provoking genuine public outrage or rational accountability. Yet, this chronic cycle of “unhappy returns” is no mere political anomaly; it serves the supreme interests of a predatory Big Tech capitalism. Silicon Valley has discovered that liquidating anger and recycling crises yield the highest profit margins of the twenty-first century. The danger of this […]