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does anyone else feel enslaved?
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you're right that the problem is centered on identity, and the need social media platforms have to sort of get everyone categorized.. and fighting based on their categories.. it's what the advertisement thrives on..
Believe what your referring to is the term engagement.
it's a cheap, easy form of it
So you can draw the notion that identity politics serves capitalism. Which is the point I'm making.
i understand your point
Take my upvote been a while since someone understood
haha i hear you.. one of the effects of what you're talking about.. on all of us..
Exactly apparently I hate women because communism is stateless... It's ridiculous
it's the assumption that dialogue can be won, or it is desirable to win at combat with words, that kind of thing.. they work hard to make the whole thing SEEM like an arena.. that way we come to it with a combative attitude, assuming we won't be understood.,
I can agree with that, if you examine it all it is are people's ego responding to pixels on a device which they own, they expect a self reflection of their own ego hence when online discourse is terrible because we are all bombarded with information with people seeing different information and not understanding where that conclusion came from. It's no surprise that the rate of narcissism has climbed with the rise of the internet as well as increasing polarisation, people aren't self reflecting on why they react the way they do. I know this because over the years I self examined on why I react to what I was exposed to.
we don't give ourselves time to reflect, yeah.. everybody is mentally exhausted from it. constantly listening to someone talk directly into their ears.. doesn't matter what.. you're not allowing your mind to rest and reflect like it needs to.. so everyone is sort of stuck on broadcast at the moment.. immediately announcing their profile characteristics when you meet them.. making sure you know their boundaries..
These days you get accused of trolling for having a discussion, your positions and solutions are assumed to generalised pre-perscribed ideological positions, you are given death threats, harassed and given abuse for deviating from the norm. Honestly the internet could do with being turned off for a month.
If you have to start a statement with "these days" you don't exactly have a strong position.
i'd make you all sit quietly in a corner for a week, if i could
Why? I thought we was having a decent civil conversation.
just my natural inclination, don't take it personally.. see this is the problem..
Explain your rational please
no.. live with it or leave it alone.. i don't answer to you.. it is what it is..
But why put me in a corner particularly?
jesus learn to read and get your head out of your own ass.. i said "all of you".. ALL OF YOU.. EVERYONE.. i would make YOU ALL sit in a corner, asshole. because you all have your heads up your asses..
It's OK dude everything will be ok
one way or another
Couple that with 24/7 connection to the internet and smart phones etc. It's a recipe for disaster. Back in the dial up days these were not issues you logged on updated yourself with the latest forum etc and you turned it off. There were serious forums and what can be called these days as shit post forums. The discourse was much more civil and friendlier than today's standard. Everyone was anonymous and you was considered stupid for putting your personal information on the internet. Nowadays you get accused of trolling for having a different opinion, you get cancelled for wrong think and your life destroyed for not stepping in lock step, this kind of stuff was unthinkable in those days as it sounds straight from a nightmare dystopian novel depicting an extreme 1984 fascist society. The ethos around the internet was seen as a decentralised utopian world to free ourselves from the complex reality of our world, then the Normie's came online.
Couple that with 24/7 connection to the internet and smart phones etc. It's a recipe for disaster. Back in the dial up days these were not issues you logged on updated yourself with the latest forum etc and you turned it off. There were serious forums and what can be called these days as shit post forums. The discourse was much more civil and friendlier than today's standard. Everyone was anonymous and you was considered stupid for putting your personal information on the internet.