- Joined
- Jun 9, 2018
During the outage I decided to binge-watch some MATI clips (and holy shit, I had no idea Null's Livestreams were this damn funny), and I think I found the excerpt that you're referring to above:Null has had his dirty laundry out in the open for maybe the longest time, and it's lead him to see a future where everyone knows all the dirty details about everyone else. Then, when an accusation happens, the people can weigh the accuser's sins as well as the accused's. It might make for a more balanced world, but I still don't want to be the first to give up my anonymity.
Null: But the problem is, in contemporary times, your personal life and professional life are never separate. Your entire life is now in service to your professional career, especially on the internet. People search who you are, and they find things that they don't like. Then, you're in trouble for it. You're on the hook for it. I don't have to worry about that, I just have to win public opinion in the areas where it matters, right? But for most people, if you are, if you have drama... even if it's inconsequential drama, even if it's just, like, your name on the thread, it still does damage to your professional reputation because any kind of stuff like that is a red flag to employers. And that's the shit that people should really wanna change. Like, why is it that now, all of us, have to put on this facade of professionality all the time? Nobody is allowed to take off their mask and be, like, a normal person anymore. Because, if you fuck up, it'll haunt you, into your career, for the rest of your life. So everyone, all the time, has to act a specific way that's conflating with business interests, for companies they don't even have a relationship with yet, because those companies are afraid of potential embarrassment down the road, because the outrage mob it all powerful. If anyone gets nasty e-mails, if anyone gets a complaint about someone, they get spooked and they drop you immediately. And that, that is a serious societal problem that is gonna cause significant issues in the future. Because there's gonna come a time as privacy lessens, and people are getting on the internet younger and younger, that everyone's gonna have dirt on them. Everyone's gonna have dirt on them, or the governments of the world are gonna legislate the internet in such a way that you can't have dirt floating around on the internet. Shit like the KiwiFarms and ED are gonna be criminalized and only certified repositories of personal information, like the ADL, are gonna be allowed to exist, you know? I think, I don't know, maybe the companies of people growing up in this era, like, the people who are my age turning 30, going into their 40s just now, are gonna be the ones operating companies soon, and maybe they won't give a fuck about things that companies by people who are older than this, in their 50s right now, do care about. Cos, it can't. This cannot continue. Cos... I don't know how to sum up my feelings about this, because, it is strange. I feel bad for normies, I feel bad cos you because (laughs) my favourite thing is the Pajeets and Indians who have this really squeakily clean public image of themselves in suits, and they put it up their LinkedIn and they get it bloated with all this bullshit, and they have, like, such a meticulously crafted public image that any, any tarnish at all could destroy, entirely. It's like, everyone focuses so hard on making themselves look so good on the internet, and, cos, it's super important. It's super important to getting hired. And that has to change, at some point. We're gonna have to come to the realization that we as a species are ugly, stinky monkeys that like to put our pee-pees in weird things, and say retarded shit all the fucking time. We're either gonna have to come to that realization, and then enforce law that clean up public perception of people, or we're gonna have to come to that realization and just deal with the fact that your employees are just a bunch of sick fucking freaks into weird shit and let that be its own thing that doesn't interfere with your business regardless of how people complain about it. OK? Cos right now it's just weird and the value of labour is so low that companies have the freedom to be picky about who they hire. You know, if you're a potential liability to their company, and their company's image, when they just don't have to give a shit.
This is all fine and well as a utopian fantasy of "radical transparency" on everyone's part, this idea that if we all lived in glass houses, the idea of privacy or exposure would somehow lose its power over us. I've also read an article by a historian who said that privacy is a recent concept and that people in the past lived in familial groups where they had no privacy, which frankly sounds nightmarish to me. It's cool that Null himself is so desensitized to the idea of people being creeps on the internet that it doesn't bother him anymore, but that's not the average person. The average person wants to play the silly game of hide-and-seek that is part of the social fabric of society.
The cold hard fact is that we just don't live in a utopia where everyone can put their dick on the internet and live to tell the tale. What angers me about the TRAs that want to censor KF is that, a lot of them are unrepentant narcissistic shameless exhibitionists (Keffals certainly is), they are "radically transparent" about their lives, they want to have their girldiq on display online everywhere. They hate us because we just don't give them the response were hoping to get for being so "radically transparent". They want to be praised and celebrated for having no boundaries but we just laugh and cringe at them for making a fool of themselves. It's not like we owe them anything. But they are so arrogant, so entitled, so needy, so insecure in themselves, they want to punish us for not providing them their narcissistic supply. No troon, I'm not gonna praise you for being a creepy and scaring all the girls, GTFO.
As for employers, my personal work policy is: I don't want to work for any employer who pretends to give a shit about what I do or say in my private life under a pseudonym. I don't give a shit about what my employer does or says in their private life either, and I expect that courtesy to be mutual. Everything was so much better when workplaces were still Don't Ask Don't Tell and it was considered rude and intrusive to interrogate employees about their private life. For me, a workplace that is incestuous in that manner (expecting everyone to socialize with everyone and be candid about their private life), that is a huge red flag to stay away, An employer who receives doxx and decides to go along with a doxxing campaign is an employer exploiting their position of authority to participate in a privacy violation, plain and simple. If my employer is the kind of privacy-violating dictator who expects me to grovel and apologize over what I do and say in my private life, then I won't wait to get fired, I will quit and will warn every privacy-loving individual against working for that employer, for the rest of my life.
Advice to zoomers: insist on your privacy and insist that others insist on theirs' as well.