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matrixmannYou know something that can really make you desperate about the internet these days?
It has become so rare that you can talk to somebody about a topic from politics, social sciences or other humanities in a manner with the niveau that a normally educated person can have.
Mostly you run into activists or people which keep blogging excessively about one single topic and their view is as narrowed as a cat’s pupil in broad daylight. Also, the atmosphere is constantly a little aggressive and you keep feeling like you’re really stupid about that topic, although there might be not much reason to think so.
It’s... somehow a time episode and a development state of culture where those who consider themselves as “the fallen”, “the suppressed” or “the lesser heard voices” (be it that it factually is partly true or completely based on personal imagination) all draw back to their lonely islands, form groups of frustration and anger, and specialize themselves in the one and only topic which they see themselves disadvantaged in, additionally emphasizing all the time, to outsiders as well as in the group, what throws them into this state.
But, important thing that totally goes lost on them is: They lose the view about what happens left or right from them. What happens outside their established and closed group. What takes place outside of their narrow focus and their war for being not so disadvantaged anymore.
Even the more, they even tend to forget there are other people too which are disadvantaged, but through a totally different aspect. It would never come to mind for these to form alliances with those other underprivileged people in order to create something that erases this suppressed state from both of them, partly or completely (what is realistic to be turned into living conditions).
And that is what just makes it so frustrating...
Lonely islands taking a bath in their own frustration, each for itself, everyone thinks he’s the most suppressed and disadvantaged, and all through the while they even create the strangest personal views that all non-insiders can’t follow or even support anymore - ‘cause they’re so far from the reality that takes place and they even seem to make a step back again from the course of an advanced society.
Speaking: Everyone who doesn’t agree is part of the arch enemy. New input not allowed. Even if it is due, even if it has a grounded factual base, even if it might be correct. “Don’t you dare to disturb the purity of our belief! Leave us the hell alone, we want to keep grumbling in unity... ‘Cause grumbling is our everyday legitimation to be alive.” And the grumbling goes on and on for all eternity, never changing anything on the origins what makes those people grumble, and steadily keeping on being locked to the solution patterns the group suggests to overcome the problems. Never checking out if they still suit, if time didn’t overcome them, prove them wrong, or they were correct and not short-sighted in the first place.
In short: “All other people are dumb and we found the Holy Grail.”
For every corner that exists in the internet, you find groups behaving like that - all behaving the same style, like someone hooked up their brains to a machine and now controls how these people dance.
Previous writing, some other aspect: https://matrixmann.dreamwidth.org/171682.html
It has become so rare that you can talk to somebody about a topic from politics, social sciences or other humanities in a manner with the niveau that a normally educated person can have.
Mostly you run into activists or people which keep blogging excessively about one single topic and their view is as narrowed as a cat’s pupil in broad daylight. Also, the atmosphere is constantly a little aggressive and you keep feeling like you’re really stupid about that topic, although there might be not much reason to think so.
It’s... somehow a time episode and a development state of culture where those who consider themselves as “the fallen”, “the suppressed” or “the lesser heard voices” (be it that it factually is partly true or completely based on personal imagination) all draw back to their lonely islands, form groups of frustration and anger, and specialize themselves in the one and only topic which they see themselves disadvantaged in, additionally emphasizing all the time, to outsiders as well as in the group, what throws them into this state.
But, important thing that totally goes lost on them is: They lose the view about what happens left or right from them. What happens outside their established and closed group. What takes place outside of their narrow focus and their war for being not so disadvantaged anymore.
Even the more, they even tend to forget there are other people too which are disadvantaged, but through a totally different aspect. It would never come to mind for these to form alliances with those other underprivileged people in order to create something that erases this suppressed state from both of them, partly or completely (what is realistic to be turned into living conditions).
And that is what just makes it so frustrating...
Lonely islands taking a bath in their own frustration, each for itself, everyone thinks he’s the most suppressed and disadvantaged, and all through the while they even create the strangest personal views that all non-insiders can’t follow or even support anymore - ‘cause they’re so far from the reality that takes place and they even seem to make a step back again from the course of an advanced society.
Speaking: Everyone who doesn’t agree is part of the arch enemy. New input not allowed. Even if it is due, even if it has a grounded factual base, even if it might be correct. “Don’t you dare to disturb the purity of our belief! Leave us the hell alone, we want to keep grumbling in unity... ‘Cause grumbling is our everyday legitimation to be alive.” And the grumbling goes on and on for all eternity, never changing anything on the origins what makes those people grumble, and steadily keeping on being locked to the solution patterns the group suggests to overcome the problems. Never checking out if they still suit, if time didn’t overcome them, prove them wrong, or they were correct and not short-sighted in the first place.
In short: “All other people are dumb and we found the Holy Grail.”
For every corner that exists in the internet, you find groups behaving like that - all behaving the same style, like someone hooked up their brains to a machine and now controls how these people dance.
Previous writing, some other aspect: https://matrixmann.dreamwidth.org/171682.html