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What's very interesting and frightening to me is the mental health version of this dynamic. Someone with anorexia or another illness that destabilizes your per
by tenaciousDaniel 8y ago
What's very interesting and frightening to me is the mental health version of this dynamic.
Someone with anorexia or another illness that destabilizes your perspective may find support in an online community. But they can also seek out and find communities that catalyze the destabilization.
- spookthesunset 8y ago/r/incels comes to mind in this regard.
- api 8y agoThere are also a ton of subreddits that seem full of clinical paranoids, like the "Mandela Effect" crowd.
- tenaciousDaniel 8y agoYes exactly. Prior to the internet, the "category of people whom no one wanted to have sex with" did not exist.
- philwelch 8y agoThe real question is: is there really that much of a difference?