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Facebook, like many other things in our society, is a Clan-thing. "My clan vs your clan" is a game that humans play very very well. Their initial reaction is j
by mlang23 7y ago
Facebook, like many other things in our society, is a Clan-thing. "My clan vs your clan" is a game that humans play very very well.
Their initial reaction is just "oh, you are not one of us". If you talk about the details, they might agree with you, but they still fall for the "not one of my clan"-thing initially.
Same happens with many things.
Linux vs Windows vs Mac OS
Android vs iOS
Left vs Right
Vegetarian vs meat-eater
vaxxination vs anti-vaxx
choose your poison.
- VLM 7y agoHN contains many obvious example of clan behavior. New Urbanism, bicycling, cooking for yourself instead of eating restaurant food every meal, Trump derangement syndrome, Brexit is going to cause the collapse of civilization, all strictly enforced groupthink on HN. It never fails to amaze me how we (as a group) can have a free and open discussion of microcontroller RTOS options, but god help someone who has the wrong opinion about bicycling the groupthink will incinerate them. Free to have any opinion here about tech things, but the counter reaction to that is no freedom at all about non-tech related opinions.