emma
@emmabwaldron
what is happening society and why is everyone experiencing an existential crisis? it seems like the last couple of years has been fraught with tension after tension the catholic church scandal, the me too movement, blm, stop asian hate, trump, trans politics etc etc but why?
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Caden
@cbxm
actively working on a thesis about how the internet has accelerated cultural globalization leading to context collapse, and the result is that interpersonal meaning is dead in the water we don't know each other anymore we only know everything else so we fight with facts instead of connecting with wonder
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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️
@maybeimwasabi
We know everything else - aren’t people, different cultures (exposure to them through the internet and access to information) part of that though?
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Caden
@cbxm
the idea is that we believe our "exposure" to other cultures through the internet is a proper representation of those people's experience so we generalize and stereotype our neighbor, instead of getting to know them as a person we become armchair experts, rather than friends
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Im super interested in this topic. Yet also struck by the fact that before the internet most of the things people knew about other parts of the world were basically just even more racist memes? So like it’s not solved yet but at least it’s directionally better?
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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️
@maybeimwasabi
That’s my thinking. Not solved, but everything is relative. And relative to 100 years ago, we’re far less racist and a more accepting society. The plane, and the internet have massively helped.
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Caden
@cbxm
less racist, more accepting, but with shallower and less meaningful relationships, which leads to our existential crises, despite our moral improvements
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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️
@maybeimwasabi
Fast paced lifestyles, hyper specialization in jobs don’t help either. Nothing replaces an in person interaction, the heart doesn’t lie
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