optimistic guy in 1995: the internet will allow people from all over the world to communicate with each other. Any piece of information you want will be available to you at your fingertips
Some of this goofy ass shit is :fedposting: and wouldn't exist if large amounts of money and manpower weren't dedicated to propagating it for ideological reasons.
Some of this goofy ass shit is purge engagement porn. I wouldn't know who InfraRed or Vaush or half a dozen other terminally online dorks were if y'all weren't spamming the feed with their clown shit. I probably wouldn't know who Felix was, either, though. So you take what life hands you.
Some of this goofy ass shit is legitimately people with incomplete education, perception, or understanding trying to piece together a philosophy they only glimpse around the edges. Folks out there repeating $10 words that they've only come across in passing, because they think it gives their statements credence and because they think making profound statements is how you advance your social cause.
But blaming "The Internet" feels like blaming "The TV" or "The Telephone" or "The Printing Press". We have both exhaustively documented and significantly accelerated the process by which ideas propagate and mutate. So now some junior editor at Buzzfeed can assemble a timeline of public statements and views in a matter of hours that would have been a Historian's PhD dissertation fifty years ago. Having in-your-face living proof of how social views transform and watching it all play out in living memory rather than simply reading about it in retrospect as some record of antiquity, is scary. But the internet isn't responsible for the germination of ideas (or the clown car of jokers advancing nonsense). Its simply the vector.
The bitter truth is that if not for the Internet, you likely wouldn't be laughing at the bungled jibberish of leftist codewords in a Twitter thread, because you'd be nodding sagely at your local Baptist Minister while gormlessly consuming some half-scrambled Lutheran gospel. Then you'd be back to your field in Altice, so you could get your lord his grain.
optimistic guy in 1995: the internet will allow people from all over the world to communicate with each other. Any piece of information you want will be available to you at your fingertips
<fast forward 26 years>
oh no!
Garbage in, Garbage out.
Some of this goofy ass shit is :fedposting: and wouldn't exist if large amounts of money and manpower weren't dedicated to propagating it for ideological reasons.
Some of this goofy ass shit is purge engagement porn. I wouldn't know who InfraRed or Vaush or half a dozen other terminally online dorks were if y'all weren't spamming the feed with their clown shit. I probably wouldn't know who Felix was, either, though. So you take what life hands you.
Some of this goofy ass shit is legitimately people with incomplete education, perception, or understanding trying to piece together a philosophy they only glimpse around the edges. Folks out there repeating $10 words that they've only come across in passing, because they think it gives their statements credence and because they think making profound statements is how you advance your social cause.
But blaming "The Internet" feels like blaming "The TV" or "The Telephone" or "The Printing Press". We have both exhaustively documented and significantly accelerated the process by which ideas propagate and mutate. So now some junior editor at Buzzfeed can assemble a timeline of public statements and views in a matter of hours that would have been a Historian's PhD dissertation fifty years ago. Having in-your-face living proof of how social views transform and watching it all play out in living memory rather than simply reading about it in retrospect as some record of antiquity, is scary. But the internet isn't responsible for the germination of ideas (or the clown car of jokers advancing nonsense). Its simply the vector.
The bitter truth is that if not for the Internet, you likely wouldn't be laughing at the bungled jibberish of leftist codewords in a Twitter thread, because you'd be nodding sagely at your local Baptist Minister while gormlessly consuming some half-scrambled Lutheran gospel. Then you'd be back to your field in Altice, so you could get your lord his grain.
it me :yea: