Zero Edge
Most content consumption leads to anger, hate, and mental pain. Not consuming content leads to mellowness and peace but an uninformed stance. I used to think the world was "nice" and most people were "good" but it seems harder and harder to find those things I used to think. Is the internet just very good at highlighting the "edge cases". Does the internet accurately represent the world and its opinion as a whole or is it just edge case after edge case.
Dee N.
It depends on where you decide to look. Filtering is the ultimate problem. News can be addictive, moderation is difficult. My rule of thumb is to frequent places with active and stimulating conversations. Avoid Twitter, FB. Maintain a selection of subreddits which you like and actively leave the ones that start to get polluted.
Mike Ex
Just a handful of people can spoil your perception of the others but it doesn't speak to the fact that the others are also as bad.
đ¨ī¸ Fui
Assumption 1: content consumption leads to hate, etc. Assumption 2: no consumption the opposite. Those are just that, assumptions. Anecdata: I know several people that consume a lot of content and are fairly peaceful, as I know people who don't consume and are assholes.
đ LÊo
The 1% rule ( en.m.wikipedia.org...) ) states that, as a rule of thumb, only 1% of users actually engage and create content. So yeah, the internet is good at giving a voice to the edge cases. Most people are normal (whatever that means).
đ 2083uunx88nx39x
Well according the UN more than half of the world doesn't have access to the internet so I would say no, not the worlds. As for the people who do and the content they create if you look closely you'll find that you're probably having more negative content pushed on you than you realize. Media, advertisers etc. know that negativity gets clicks.
đ Oscar
Have you read local newspapers? That might be a way for you to restore some faith in humanity. Mainstream media tend to have one or another form of political agenda so in turbulent times they can get rather nasty.
Angelino Desmet
You might find this insightful: I Hate the News - Aaron Swartz aaronsw.com/weblog...
Dee N.
"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity." - Aaron Swartz
đ Tom Canuck
Do you think the 1% rule is true, that for every 99 people who read something, only one will post? If that's the case, then everything on the internet is an edge case.
Gaby Dewilde
Posting some crap some place barely gets readers. Out of thousands of posters only few write real articles and much fewer write them on the big echo chamber outlets. All the others just echo what they read there. Some 0.0001% gets all the readers and it takes a specific kind of person to get there.
đ Nlggers
Filter bubbles certain contribute to losing a sense of what other people think. ie: wordlist filters, user blocking functions, ect...
đ Zero Two
Just don't care about it. Limit your emotional response.
đĢ Zero Bomb
So even there you have to be careful. As G.K. Chesterton puts it "Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance." So while I agree that withholding emotional response is a key to accurate thinking, we should not use that as an excuse to not care about real social problems.
đ¤Ŧ Foobar
Although this is a philosophy that I subscribe to, it's a very naive to tell someone this. There are things that illicit emotional responses involuntarily.
đ Terry Mcginnis
This is a pretty zen attitude.
đ Andromeda Pie
White people raped and pillaged the world for centuries. Now that we took their toys away they are throwing a hissy fit by being fascist right wing trolls. It's mainly white American men. Most people are alright. Don't let it get you down.
đ Yt L.
Non-white groups throughout history have done their share of rape and pillage. Why would you single out a specific race and gender to complain about their history?
đ Nlggers
@hr I'm not white I'm Jewish.
đģ Kenneth Jensen
Great example. This is an excellent shitpost. US here. Importing all of our common staple goods ruined this country. We can thank the old white men and Jewish men who wanted to make another buck for selling off our country for the past two hundred years. Why is my American car built in Mexico? This is the absolute bullshit that causes racial tensions. Why is it not okay to be human? The Internet has a lot of ugly places because it is hard to get along. Don't make life harder.
đ Andromeda Pie
Of course they have. But I don't see any other groups spreading hate on subreply except white men. As soon as a Mongol shows up and threatens bigotry against non Mongols, I'll be sure to include them in my example.
đ Bort Simpson
Well said. It makes me sick that white men, who are all either racist or complicit in white supremacy, think they can just scutter to some other corner of the internet to spread their sick, perverted, dark fantasies of subjugation on The People. These animals need to be called out, blasted on the airwaves, and erased, full stop. Systemic and online white supremacy MUST END NOW. #BLM
đ Andromeda Pie
Yes yes yes yes. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter.
Zero Edge
How prevalent do you believe racism is in America? 1 in 10? 1 in 20? Or is it that each person carries a certain amount of racism with them even if they don't realize it? If it is a percentage in each person do you think that only exists in white people or are all people regardless of creed somewhat drawn towards their own race?
đ Bort Simpson
Um.... you're kidding, right? Have you been living under a rock lately? You didn't see George Floyd savagely murdered by a white supremacist cop while he pleaded for his life? I'm guessing you're white. You have a special blindness to the reality of AmeriKKKa for PoC like me. Typical, but still disappointing. Protip: READ ROBIN DIANGELO.
Zero Edge
Do you think I am playing a game with you? Where one will lose and one will win? I am simply asking a question to you about how many racist people you think the are in United States of America? You don't have to answer I am just curious because you have very strong beliefs and I want to know more about them.
đ Bort Simpson
Sweetie, it is NOT the job of PoC to educate you on the systemic oppression that YOU, wHITE mEN, enact and enhance by your nonchalant insistence that we can just "discuss" the generational conflict, the white police brutality, and the obsession with "whiteness" that is so pervasive and clouds your views. It is YOUR job to do the work. I'm done with you.
đ Yt L.
I think it makes sense to be mad at specific people for their specific wrongdoing, but it's irrational to attribute greater harm or malice to people just because their forebears may have done objectionable things. A modern Mongol isn't guilty for the crimes of Genghis Khan.
đ Andromeda Pie
I didn't say ALL white men are being problematic here. Just that ALL the people being problematic ARE white men. Small but big difference.
đ Yt L.
Why make it about race and gender at all, especially when you don't really know either? Why not just say "Person X is being problematic" or "Behavior X examples here are problematic"?
đ§ Justin
For the record, there's no white male committee here and I think it would be better if you addressed the specific people spreading hate rather than addressing a group that is almost entirely not doing that. Assigning communal guilt is a dangerous thing, don't you think?
đ Nlggers
Some people have a particular hatred towards whites. I'm not entirely clear on why @hr has jumped to the conclusion that I am white. I'm not for the record of European lineage. I suppose that isn't terribly consequential to someone who has already made it up in their mind that the word nigger is itself reason to believe a user embodies the enemy they already harbour in their own mind.
đģ Kenneth Jensen
I concur. My skin is white, but also very Native American. You know, I'm just American. My family is Texan. Spreading hate and painting false targets in people's minds is something that only makes life that much more miserable. I've met many-a white and Hispanic niggers in the world. Nobody had a choice to be created. The Indians didn't proclaim hate against the white men who showed up one day until after they were burned too many times. Why must we taint our vocabulary?
đ Yt L.
Well written. I agree completely.
Zero Edge
How can you weigh a person tho? Put your average person in a place of extreme power? How can anyone not be corrupt? Isn't that just part of human nature?
đ Andromeda Pie
Maybe. Just focus your attention elsewhere. It sounds like you need a break. Indulge in the arts. Artists are crazy in a good way. Right now subreply is not a great place for your to be since it doesn't have curation or ability to block people. Stay away if it's better for your mental health.
Zero Edge
Maybe the art is in the conversation. Instead of delete maybe engage? Instead of ignore maybe ask question? How can the world become a better place if no one is talking to each other? Where does a racist find his inspiration? Where is his root? What is wrong with conversation? Maybe I am crazy.. But maybe writing and conversation is an art form and not enough people recognize that.
đ Andromeda Pie
You could try but I'd say it's a rookie mistake. They are trolls and there is a reason people say don't feed them. It only encourages them. I just tried an hour ago to no avail. Check my replies in my profile. If you assume sincerity on their part they will troll even harder. Kindness, trust, love are not values that they recognize
Zero Edge
You're probably right. I wonder why it is so hard to reach out from your circle and try and see the other side..
đ Andromeda Pie
They just don't want to. I have seen racists up close. They believe in some devilish worldview where their white seed must be passed on and must conquer the world. And right now trans people are just earning their social freedom so they can't stand it and have to bitch about it. 20 years back it was gay people.
đ¤ David
It is difficult to persuade your ego when long-held principles become at-risk as a result. If a person hasn't experienced a radical shift in perspective before--such as what one experiences in an epiphany of thought--then they will be sensitive to change.
đ¯ Gallium Oxide
Don't be a doomer, dude. It's cringe af. There are plenty of good people in the world and most content on the internet is actually great. Highly organized political action groups and state actors are able to amplify propaganda using bots but that's easy to filter out. Just curate your feed.
Charlie Coppinger
Kinda feels like this kinda rehetoric is a part of the problem; ergo, you've proven their point.
Zero Edge
What is news? You cannot consume news without picking a "side". Each side highlights the edges not the whole. Money + News is always corruptible as more views = more money. Humans are more inclined to watch violence over a person picking daisies. Highlight the violence. Make more money. There is no exit.