- Joined
- Jul 30, 2017
Eh, I think it's social media acting as a drug to enable the most basic human impulses.I dunno. I suppose it's just a day I'm having, but the divisiveness and discord and will to dehumanize based on ideology is like nothing I've seen in my life. I started noticing it seriously in 2016, but if I think back, the narrative was being fleshed out at least as early as the mid-eighties. The fact that this roaring machine hasn't even slowed down to take a breath during such a massively disruptive global pandemic doesn't bode well for the future, IMO.
If you think of people less as individuals and a group of them more as a singular server farm running multiple processors (the brains) to preserve the server farm, it starts to fit together. As social animals, humans get a pleasurable rush from agreeing with the group and a painful reaction to disagreeing with it - which makes sense, getting exiled back in the cave times would be almost certain death for a person.
Turn group approval into an instant gratification activity and of course the natural human tendency to blend in is going to kick into overdrive. Just as over eating on sweets (which you're wired to because sugar is rare in nature) gives you diabetes, over indulging on social media gives you NPC-dom.
Now give me all your likes and agrees. I can quit any time I want.