I would give anything to go back to usenet and that everything would be taken with a grain of salt because it is usenet.
That is never going to happen though. We are society of automatons now who have mostly outsourced their thinking to the mob/group mind of social media.
If you read Le Bon or Freud's work on group psychology it may as well be talking about social media in 2022.
"The feelings of the group are always very simple and very exaggerated. So that the group knows neither doubt nor uncertainty. It goes directly to extremes, if a suspicion is expressed, it is instantly changed into an incontrovertible certainty."
It’s been less than a single ~~generation~~ human lifespan since WW2, stop pretending like our species has transcended simply because we can send some 0s and 1s across the world.
There is war. People are dying, and you’re here commenting about free speech and your lack of access to 0s and 1s.
Edit: My usage of the term “generation” was pointed out to be wrong
A generation is usually counted as somewhere between 20 and 25 years. As in, enough time for an infant to grow into an adult and then have their own children.
1: the adults in 1945
2: their babies became parents in 1970
3: their babies became parents in 1995
4: the babies of the parents in 1995 are now adults and are giving birth to the next generation
I would give anything to go back to usenet and that everything would be taken with a grain of salt because it is usenet.
That is never going to happen though. We are society of automatons now who have mostly outsourced their thinking to the mob/group mind of social media.
If you read Le Bon or Freud's work on group psychology it may as well be talking about social media in 2022.
"The feelings of the group are always very simple and very exaggerated. So that the group knows neither doubt nor uncertainty. It goes directly to extremes, if a suspicion is expressed, it is instantly changed into an incontrovertible certainty."