{"id":19924,"date":"2026-02-16T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/get-a-grip\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:30:16","slug":"get-a-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/get-a-grip\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a grip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a very weird thing happening Canada right now. If you spend any time on the algorithm driven social media and you live especially in western Canada you will have noticed that there is a tremendous amount of out of proportion outrage being generated around issues like \u201cwestern separatism\u201d and residential school denilaism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the reason I left Facebook and Twitter permanently. What was coming through my feed was pure poison. It is poison for democratic deliberation, it is poison for community cohesiveness and it is undermining governance and it is harming people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s serving someone, driven by a clear agenda which seeks to reduce government regulation, and do the bidding of large foreign corporations and investors. This isn\u2019t new, but the capture of social media algorithms by these companies and their strategic initiatives are driving our communities and countries apart. RAPIDLY. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bchistoryboy.ca\/p\/the-big-money-behind-powell-rivers\">Craig Turner has a great piece on this<\/a> and it\u2019s worth a read if you want to get a grip on reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a very weird thing happening Canada right now. If you spend any time on the algorithm driven social media and you live especially in western Canada you will have noticed that there is a tremendous amount of out of proportion outrage being generated around issues like \u201cwestern separatism\u201d and residential school denilaism. It\u2019s the reason I left Facebook and Twitter permanently. What was coming through my feed was pure poison. It is poison for democratic deliberation, it is poison for community cohesiveness and it is undermining governance and it is harming people. And it\u2019s serving someone, driven by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Get a grip","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-5bm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}