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I don't think these questions have legible answers. Before social media, someone might smear, criticize or judge you for prank calls you made 20 years ago. Som

I don't think these questions have legible answers. Before social media, someone might smear, criticize or judge you for prank calls you made 20 years ago. Some wouldn't. It's not court. The difference between then and now is implications. The world we're in now can take those criticisms and amplify them, making them the central theme if your public persona. It can becone thing people know about you first. In an important sense prank calls aren't a good example. Most things that get the amplified shame treatment are not individual example of wrongdoing. They're individual examples that can (rightly or wrongly) be used as examples or symbols of a political injustice of some sort, as they see it. I really don't think we can sort the rights and wrongs of this stuff, make it fair or consistent. What we need to do is lower the stakes, if we can.

pjc50 8y ago
> Before social media, someone might smear, criticize or judge you for prank calls you made 20 years ago This sort of thing used to be a staple of small-town life; everyone knew everything that you ever did and you could be defined by a childhood incident. The only way out of it was to leave. Now we have made the world smaller.
- dalbasal 8y ago
  That's a good analogy. There's something to it.
- longdefeat 8y ago
  "The closer you get together, the more you like each other? There is no evidence of that in any situation that we have ever heard of. When people get close together, they get more and more savage and impatient with each other. [Man’s] tolerance is tested in those narrow circumstances very much. Village people are not that much in love with each other. The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations." McLuhan
agumonkey 8y ago
> I don't think these questions have legible answers. A lot of things today are intensely emotional (angry, indignant, scandalized) events over non legible answers. The only conclusion I have so far is: this decade is akin to a mass scale depression where anything is a source of madness.

pjc50 8y ago

> Before social media, someone might smear, criticize or judge you for prank calls you made 20 years ago This sort of thing used to be a staple of small-town life; everyone knew everything that you ever did and you could be defined by a childhood incident. The only way out of it was to leave. Now we have made the world smaller.

dalbasal 8y ago
That's a good analogy. There's something to it.
longdefeat 8y ago
"The closer you get together, the more you like each other? There is no evidence of that in any situation that we have ever heard of. When people get close together, they get more and more savage and impatient with each other. [Man’s] tolerance is tested in those narrow circumstances very much. Village people are not that much in love with each other. The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations." McLuhan

agumonkey 8y ago

> I don't think these questions have legible answers. A lot of things today are intensely emotional (angry, indignant, scandalized) events over non legible answers. The only conclusion I have so far is: this decade is akin to a mass scale depression where anything is a source of madness.