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The thing you're describing where people latch on to outrage in the social media age isn't an effect exclusive to the left. I think that human tribalism and gro
by smolder 7y ago
The thing you're describing where people latch on to outrage in the social media age isn't an effect exclusive to the left. I think that human tribalism and group think in a huge instant forum like the modern internet inevitably lead to some bad conclusions and disproportionate outcomes. I think we have to find a way to give deeply considered and measured commentary the share of our collective attention it deserves. Upvotes and downvotes and likes and shares don't serve that purpose well enough.
- DiogenesKynikos 7y agoI agree with you for the most part, but I disagree about the characterization of the phenomenon as "far-left." It's driven by middle-class conformists, in my humble opinion.
- specialist 7y agoNow that's an interesting idea. I'm very political and some of my peeps (on the left) exhaust me. I disregard anyone telling someone else how they should be living; remove the log from your own eye first and so forth. Left, right, up, down -- they're all the same. I call them scolds. I'll now have to consider your thesis (about scolds being a flavor of conformists).
- mlevental 7y agoya because the upper middle class and the wealthy are such a heterogeneous bunch with respect to what they're intolerant of (or really along any dimension)