Prime Minister Rama declared at the meeting of the parliamentary group that politics and democracy are facing a new challenge created by the era of algorithms and social networks, where, according to him, protests no longer take place in the squares, but in the digital space.
Rama said that today’s protests need another “square”, built for the algorithm, describing the television studio as the place where the content that feeds the digital platforms is produced.
He argued that politics should be at the service of citizens, while the algorithm, according to him, favors strong emotions, anger and immediate attention.
“Today the protests do not take place in the square, but they need a square of a kind that protests in the algorithm. The square is the television studio of the algorithm, it is the place where it is filmed to feed the algorithm. They are built for people who vote, not platforms that modernize the algorithm. This is today’s challenge.
Politics should be in the service of people and the algorithm hates that. I am afraid that even I who am speaking, being for years very attracted by the developments of that world, do not understand how big and monstrous this battle is.
Whoever goes and asks for a like, a follow and anger, is against his children. If the 20th century produced the mass media society, the 21st century is producing the new class, the algorithmic proletariat, united by attention, not work; it is not united by production, it is united by the taste of self-consumption and life; it is united by the illusion that the more you look, the more authority you have.
Democracy has not replaced it with something else. Democracy today is facing the man who may never have built anything, who has no school. The authority is the one who bears the most responsibility, but the algorithm knows no responsibility. You don’t ask who built it, you ask who stopped the finger on the screen.
The one who will predict the most spectacular ending is rewarded by the algorithm. And the protest is no longer a protest, it’s a market, even of careers, but in all this they are the funniest because they haven’t figured out yet that with SP and with us, you don’t win by going out with a rusty spoon in the market of lost careers.
It doesn’t matter what is delivered, it just has to be strong, angry. We live in a time where shouting travels many times faster than argument. It’s an impossible race, emotion arrives faster than reason and gets likes and followers and doesn’t let them see the reason.
Every time a crisis, no matter how small, erupts a collective exaltation, they all want to be a part of it. A scene has been created to show off and collect greedily, greed for the algorithm to encourage like drugs, likes, followers. How many times have you heard from people who have become parelins with saddles and creams to appear there with saddles and creams that it is the trend. Only the participant who makes the most dramatic video is rewarded. It is enough to put the sign in Tirana, even if the protest takes place in a sea of Spain, and put there with subtitles ‘Death to Israel’, the one who will predict the most spectacular end is rewarded by the algorithm. And the protest is no longer a protest, it’s a market, even of careers, but in all this they are the funniest because they haven’t figured out yet that with SP and with us, you don’t win by going out with a rusty spoon in the market of lost careers.
Analysts who make analyzes without facts, strategists who did not know what it is to make a strategy, revolutionaries who have nothing to do with the revolution and chroniclers everywhere, people who have never built anything. For them, it is important what should be demolished and how to demolish it. It is important to get followers. For them, every incident is a revolution” said Rama.
