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perhaps this is an extreme demonstration of an underlying problem in modern society
by micromacrofoot 5y ago
perhaps this is an extreme demonstration of an underlying problem in modern society
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y agoIt's an extreme version of Tide Pods. Anything for the clicks and popularity, which translates to notoriety and usually ad dollars.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoThis is hardly new. People have doing stupid things for attention since humanity discovered thumbs were useful.
- SteveNuts 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_(pilot) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_(pilot)
- FabHK 5y agoOr good old Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wrong-way-corrigan-crosses-the-atlantic https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wrong-way-corrig... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Corrigan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Corrigan
- micromacrofoot 5y agothat is modern, post-industrialization, society
- alphabettsy 5y agoThis doesn’t seem like a particularly modern problem. People have been doing stupid things for attention since before there were newspapers too. https://www.trains.com/trn/railroads/history/crash-at-crush-killed-3-in-1896-texas-publicity-stunt/ https://www.trains.com/trn/railroads/history/crash-at-crush-...
- micromacrofoot 5y ago"modern" tends to mean post-industrialization in sociological contexts... so this would also qualify as modern society
- adamrezich 5y agoThe Dark Side of The Grift