>I don't know where Barry gets this, and it's written like a National Geographic-esque piece of a man trying to understand the actions and intents of animals in

>I don't know where Barry gets this, and it's written like a National Geographic-esque piece of a man trying to understand the actions and intents of animals in the Serengeti. I hate this trend. I don't have to agree with people to understand them from their own frame of reference. But it often makes me feel like an outsider to do something as simple as disagree with my southern relatives on political points without assuming conspiracy theories about their motivations and hating the core of their essence over it. Here's a less charged example: The NY Times released a video about the late bodybuilder and internet personality Zyzz yesterday. He was simultaneously inspiring and a downright terrible role model. The vast majority of people that like him know that and easily separate the whey from the chaff (positivity = good, steroids = dumb). There can be a lot of light-heartness, sarcasm and trolling on fitness parts of the internet. It was all taken at face value, stapled to existing media narratives, and shoved in front of a huge audience. I feel like, at some point, most people trying to share an understanding of others online are thick, not really trying, or actively malicious. It was a pretty depressing video (especially because the angle of the piece was to pick apart kids in their teens/early twenties trying to figure out life, that made the mistake of doing so online).