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> if we should give airtime to a shooter's grievances, or reasons I think in this case she represents a significant number of YouTubers, and is like an extrem
by bitL 9y ago
> if we should give airtime to a shooter's grievances, or reasons
I think in this case she represents a significant number of YouTubers, and is like an extreme version of discontent that is happening. Imagine a hive of bees growing until they start getting annoying and one of them stings you; by removing one you don't solve anything, you need to do something with the whole hive. So you can remove any traces of her from the Internet so that nobody knows about her motives, but all it does it to let discontent bubble and then erupt in unexpected ways, instead of doing some needed correction.
- bilbo0s 9y ago"...I think in this case she represents a significant number of YouTubers, and is like an extreme version of discontent that is happening..." Doesn't really matter though. We shouldn't be giving these people the infamy they are looking for. If anything, it's made me think a little less of disgruntled youtubers, and some youtubers have legit gripes.
- bitL 9y agoI don't think it's about being "famous" (some narcissists of course would be like that). I'd treat it as a valid feedback from within a dynamic system that there's a built up pressure somewhere and it's time to do some tweaks for system to continue working, instead of saying everything is wonderful, the feedback was just a deranged singleton instance, or even that we need to double down.
- bilbo0s 9y agoMass shooting? "...a valid feedback..." ?
- bitL 9y agoIf you look at the whole as a non-personal system, then yes. When you e.g. see your city has suddenly more murders than before, you probably take it as a valid feedback and try to do something about underlying causes.
- bilbo0s 9y agoOnly we don't. Murders go up and down all the time. Average resident of that city doesn't really see that as "feedback". In fact, the average person is completely unaffected by that. Probably less than 0.01% of any demographic in the US is murdered in any given year in any given city. Even if the rate went up by an order of magnitude, most would barely notice. (Local TV news not withstanding.)
- forgottenpass 9y agoIt hip to talk about the "systematic" nature of Bad Things, but it's very rare for people to actually consider the systems at play. Nobody bothers pushing past inventing a just-so mental state of the actor and looking at the tools they use. I like your post, you're looking for the bigger picture.