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I consider political thoughts and communicating them very much my more human experiences. Though FB etc. seems to be more used for people to agree with each oth

I consider political thoughts and communicating them very much my more human experiences. Though FB etc. seems to be more used for people to agree with each other, not really discuss. However, I remember the wild west days of forums made by people for people, with child and sibling forums and all sorts of stuff, and politics was always important, as was art, both to just enjoy and to criticize. Even arguing to show off who knew more or could save face better was great. Maybe that's nostalgia speaking, but we did learn from each other, we did change our opinions sometimes. Maybe it was because it was like 100-300 people, over years, more a village dynamic than a mall or festival. You couldn't just steal or destroy and be never seen again, what we did was and immune and not interesting to those types. We also shared photos and videos like crazy, we wrote poems or whatever, but I also wouldn't have missed the bits where we took ourselves too seriously and had drawn out discussions, those sometimes were the best bit. We weren't so uptight, didn't have such thin skins, as is the norm today, that I'll claim. We spawned from something that spawned from something that spawned from stileproject, after all. I remember this guy being kind of a racist, and we sometimes called him out for it, but otherwise he was still a member, and after a while he wasn't so racist anymore. I still think fondly of that, having shown him the door for "being in the wrong place" because of his initial remarks would have been a huge waste. He became a photo journalist and showed us many great things, too. Sorry for rambling, I don't think I have a point other than fond memories of political debates, and I bet you every one of the inner core will remember that forum for as long as they live, and we didn't even do anything that special.. it's like back then there was grass, and now there's concrete, and that makes the grass seem like a jungle.

ihaveahadron 9y ago
"I consider political thoughts and communicating them very much my more human experiences." Thats why labeling anything as more of a human experience than something else is bullshit. He obviously prefers his human experience to be pictures, you, political thought expressed in writing. Maybe someyimes people should think more, if theyre saying something for the purpose of being right then just making noise. Itd be cool if most of the time people were trying to do the latter. Unfortunately most, if not all the time, people are talking like retards, AND , they actually DO think theyre right. The knowing your wrong but just talking because anyway is a rarity if it ever happens at all.
ghthor 9y ago
Something about the forum communities is that you couldn't isolate yourself from people that disagreed with you. On facebook you can limit who you interact with, so if your ego or your beliefs are challenged you can remove that person from any future discussions. In the forum communities this was impossible unless you were an administrator. Once you became an admin you were then under the microscope from the rest of the community to operate in a fair way, though this didn't stop some admin's from completely destroying their communities or turning the community into an echo chamber.

ihaveahadron 9y ago

"I consider political thoughts and communicating them very much my more human experiences." Thats why labeling anything as more of a human experience than something else is bullshit. He obviously prefers his human experience to be pictures, you, political thought expressed in writing. Maybe someyimes people should think more, if theyre saying something for the purpose of being right then just making noise. Itd be cool if most of the time people were trying to do the latter. Unfortunately most, if not all the time, people are talking like retards, AND , they actually DO think theyre right. The knowing your wrong but just talking because anyway is a rarity if it ever happens at all.

ghthor 9y ago

Something about the forum communities is that you couldn't isolate yourself from people that disagreed with you. On facebook you can limit who you interact with, so if your ego or your beliefs are challenged you can remove that person from any future discussions. In the forum communities this was impossible unless you were an administrator. Once you became an admin you were then under the microscope from the rest of the community to operate in a fair way, though this didn't stop some admin's from completely destroying their communities or turning the community into an echo chamber.