Virtue spiraling happens on the far left or the far right as well as within religious movements. It’s when people try to outdo each other on appearing virtuous and mobbing one another for being insufficiently so. It ends with everyone being shattered and atomized and hating each other and the movement collapsing.
The toxic negativity I see on the left is a general attitude that basically everything is evil and horrible and hopeless. Any attempt to bring up good news leads to a counter attack or minimization of it. Also tends to go with discourse where the main topic is how awful the other side is. (The right hate circle jerks like that too but the tone is more aggro and less depressive.) It’s self defeating and depression inducing and generally unpleasant.
Today’s discourse is just generally toxic and stupid everywhere and like I said I blame the algorithm. Algorithmic social media took everything bad about media driven discourse and turned it up to 11.
The toxic negativity I see on the left is a general attitude that basically everything is evil and horrible and hopeless. Any attempt to bring up good news leads to a counter attack or minimization of it. Also tends to go with discourse where the main topic is how awful the other side is. (The right hate circle jerks like that too but the tone is more aggro and less depressive.) It’s self defeating and depression inducing and generally unpleasant.
Today’s discourse is just generally toxic and stupid everywhere and like I said I blame the algorithm. Algorithmic social media took everything bad about media driven discourse and turned it up to 11.