| You have good points. Clearly the name of a thing matters. I'm arguing that the naming of a thing matters less than the efficacy of the thing itself. Doubly so in a hacker-oriented forum. As for the echo-chamber, that's a classic human fallacy which I think is magnified by the centralization of content aggregation into heavily personalized "newsfeed" style design choices perpetuated by major players. The epidemic of "outrage culture," or "offense culture" is something comedians and free thinkers have been discussing for awhile, and I think is underpinning of my personal frustrations. ----- "This idea of "I'm offended". I've got news for you - I'm offended by a lot of things too. Where do I send my list? Life is offensive. Get in touch with your outer adult, and grow up, and move on." ----- Post, comment, discuss as y'all like, right? That's the beauty of the format. I'm simply one of ∞. The folks in the community here are brilliant, and the reasonable ones are off doing something meaningful, whereas I'm here arguing for practice, basically. |