EpistemicClosure

• http://www.juliansanchez.com/2010/04/07/epistemic-closure-technology-and-the-end-of-distance/
  • note how his explanation / putting himself in the position of the small-town conservative overwhelmed by the liberalism of the wider world, and so trying to close himself off from it, also works for various kinds of ConservativeIslam such the IslamicState
• http://grist.org/article/2010-09-09-the-rights-climate-denialism-is-part-of-something-much-larger/
• DonaldTrump is the latest symptom : http://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828086/donald-trump-media
• http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/06/donald-trump-facebook-social-media-tv
  • DouglasRushkoff: Why politicians get away with lies

See also :

• TheEndOfConsensus
• RightWingBlogMobsVsLeftWingAcademics
• RightWingThinkTanks