postulated myself that this would happen many years back, and it's one of the reasons this site is as far as i go with social media. there's nothing more dangerous than an angry mob that thinks they're right, and what social media does is increase the size of the mob while also increasing the amount of information that agrees with whatever viewpoint is already held and decreasing the contrary information, which has the effect of making the mob even more sure of themselves and even more firmly against "others". haidt talks about reading material from "the other side", but that doesn't happen anymore. even though it's available, it's "wrong" by association. very easy to see here too, the number of videos people don't watch, don't discuss, and vote 1 on.
that coupled with the historically high wealth imbalance (it is now worse by a wide margin than it was in the great depression), which stresses people by caging them and making them more likely to search for people to blame and attack, means we're in for real trouble.
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postulated myself that this would happen many years back, and it's one of the reasons this site is as far as i go with social media. there's nothing more dangerous than an angry mob that thinks they're right, and what social media does is increase the size of the mob while also increasing the amount of information that agrees with whatever viewpoint is already held and decreasing the contrary information, which has the effect of making the mob even more sure of themselves and even more firmly against "others". haidt talks about reading material from "the other side", but that doesn't happen anymore. even though it's available, it's "wrong" by association. very easy to see here too, the number of videos people don't watch, don't discuss, and vote 1 on.
that coupled with the historically high wealth imbalance (it is now worse by a wide margin than it was in the great depression), which stresses people by caging them and making them more likely to search for people to blame and attack, means we're in for real trouble.