RantA general rant of disbelief at where we are.

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[–]GuacLettuceBacon 26 insightful - 2 fun26 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I agree it's completely awful.

I DO have hope that good will come out of this.

The best backlash is an Era of critical thinking.

2020 culture:

  • Something is true if YOU feel it's true
  • A worldview is only good if it comes from MY supporters.
  • I will insist there is only one good worldview, OUR worldview.
  • If you contradict our worldview... I will shame, guilt, silence, or disown you.
  • I'll accept you as long as you don't contradict my line of thinking.

Actual love:

  • There is absolute truth.
  • Truth results in physical, emotional, intellectual prosperity of all humans.
  • A worldview is good as long as it stands for the truth.

  • You don't have to pressure people to agree with you, the truth proves itself.

  • I love you because you are different from me.

  • I love that you think, behave, feel, and look different from myself.

  • I will not insist on being included everywhere.

  • I respect the privacy of your space, your body, and your individuality.

About 500 years ago in 1520 there was a Renaissance that brought tons of scientific progress, art, and literature that propelled us into the modern day.

Being extra optimistic, there could be a second Renaissance.

A re-awakening where people aren't dominated by fear & social pressure, a place of patience, respect, individuality, love of humans who think different. A place where we love and protect the diversity of the human mind and human body.

People think because we have technology we're civilized now? Nah, 2020 is dark ages(intellectually, emotionally, spiritually).

[–]InigoEnFuego[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I fucking hope you're right. I just wonder how we will ever get back to sense when we live in the era of social media. It's a very different world than humanity has ever seen before and if we can't learn to debate and grow as rational people in the world of social media then we're just bound to continue fracturing until everyone just hates one another. I have to wonder if social media is just humanity sped up and we're just seeing the changes happen 10 times faster than before or if it's genuinely rotting peoples abilities to ever think rationally again.

[–]reluctant_commenter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm going to have to go with the "humanity sped up" version. This is also, in my opinion, reason #1001 why intelligence-based eugenics is bullshit. More intelligence does not mean better, if anything it means faster. So we make mistakes at a faster rate too. Social media is a technology and a tool, and like any tool, it propagates mistakes as quickly as it propagates useful work. In this case, mistakes being misinformation and "useful work" being truth spreading. The dilemma universal to the human timeline is deciding how to ethically use the tools that are available in our time. Making a bunch of new tools does not make that responsibility/need go away.

Just my 2 cents. Sort of a tangent, though.