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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emma
@emmabwaldron
memes just spread more rapidly now with the new medium we have more exposure to information than ever before.. i wonder are more people seeking information now though? or are the same people who would have sat and read a book reading articles online? boredom was a catalyst for inquiry now we’re endlessly stimulat
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Caden
@cbxm
the average person today probably has more knowledge in their head than any other generation in history but I don't think we earn that knowledge anymore, and therefore it isn't examined critically or valued you used to have to work to learn useless facts, now you're bombarded with them
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Somebody said somewhere (maybe tumblr) that the person who would’ve catalogued all the bugs in the tri-county area in the 1800s is now making YouTube videos about how to collect every ring in level 3 of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and I felt that in my soul
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