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At the 2.0, what story do we tell you?
September 1, 1939, 4 pm 30 am. Helmut Fritz, a soldier in the Wehrmacht after the long column of military that stretches far ahead of him. Without losing the pace of the night market, he leaves his uniform pocket and his I-Phone sends a chirp to helena@twitter.com: j'envahis Poland with Hitler, I'll be back for the wedding. At 4 pm
45, the German army invaded Poland. The very next day, France and the United Kingdom report war on Germany under a treaty binding them to Poland since 1921. This is the beginning of World War II.
The invasion of Poland was the last straw. Indeed, the historian Eric Hobsbawm, in his book Age of Extremes (1994) http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1999/09/HOBSBAWM/12431 , said that the British and French governments were willing to negotiate with Germany despite the invasion of Poland and that it is under pressure from their people they were forced not to retreat. Public opinion is ea time as powerful as propaganda, one is confusing sometimes with another.
The Second World War in an era of social media, it would have been able to give something like this: Hitler would have
Facebook account on which he recruited some friends in a very specific profile: 100% German, blond, blue eyes. He would always be friends with the communists, Jews, homosexuals, gypsies and intellectuals. His friends would have called Mussolini, Goebbels, Himmler. His blog would carefully described his plans, his final solution, his hatred at all. His Twitter account at meinkampf.com have attracted thousands of visitors and resulted in intemperate comments for most. Youtube would have shown an angry little man endlessly repeating his famous hello before the mirror.
The story does not say but if social media had existed and played the role they are known today, could they catalyze public opinion, alerting governments and urge them to act?
Could they prevent, prevent, alert?
My example is not necessarily the best. Other dramas are played at the time of 2.0 without changing anything. Still, we need to revisit our history from time to time to avoid telling them.
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