US: how radical will the ideological turnaround be?
Since Donald Trump took office, the established values in the US are floundering: Trump and his entourage are propagating a conservative world view and strict libertarian guidelines, in particular for the Internet sector. The media observe this change of direction with trepidation.
Welcome to the dystopian future
News website Liberal writes with concern:
“Musk, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (a Democrat who, by abolishing fact-checking, became a subservient agent of Trump's policies), Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin, the CEOs of Google, OpenAI and Apple as well as others of their ilk, all pioneers of frenzied technology, golden boys of the new corporate world, are also visionaries of our dystopian future. They aim to enforce global techno-feudalism and become the real rulers of the world with their technology, especially now that we are plunging into the uncontrolled age of artificial intelligence, which they are developing in their futuristic laboratories. And they all saw Trump as the perfect tool to achieve their goal.”
No need for even more toxic masculinity
Writing in the Irish Independent, columnist Tanya Sweeney regrets that influential men like Mark Zuckerberg are once again calling for more aggressiveness and competitiveness:
“His talk of a 'culture that celebrates aggression' has a trickle-down effect. For better or worse, it waters the saplings of toxic masculinity. I'm not sure I've ever worked in a place where I, or anyone, felt the masculine energy was somehow lacking. In many of them, the majority of senior managers have been male. In meetings, male colleagues always managed to have their say, quite comfortably too. The gender pay gap has been a mainstay.”
Like a tsunami
Trump knows no boundaries, writes Alexis Papachelas, executive editor of Kathimerini:
“He has no qualms about trampling on decades-old institutions, traditions and symbols. He legitimises political cannibalism as something entirely acceptable and mainstream. He's like a tsunami which no institutional barrier seems capable of holding in check. Even the business establishment bowed to him en masse, and so spectacularly - you'd think they were looking at Vladimir Putin or Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Time will tell which barriers will hold strong.”