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Why is the positive experience the echo chamber but the negative experience is a result of the inherent nature of the medium?
by hiatus 3y ago
Why is the positive experience the echo chamber but the negative experience is a result of the inherent nature of the medium?
- Fricken 3y agoBecause we are inherently tribal. We like being with our tribe. We are suspicious and wary of other tribes.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoEinstein didn’t seem particularly tribal, not about being a physicist, speaking German, being jewish, being smart, etc… If your talking about the median human then sure, they’re more likely to be tribal.
- Fricken 3y ago>Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries see the scientist musing on his travels, science, philosophy and art. In China, the man who famously once described racism as “a disease of white people” describes the “industrious, filthy, obtuse people” he observes. He notes how the “Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” After earlier writing of the “abundance of offspring” and the “fecundity” of the Chinese, he goes on to say: “It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/12/einsteins-travel-diaries-reveal-shocking-xenophobia https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2018/...
- MichaelZuo 3y agoDid you quote the wrong section? How are opinions on the living conditions and dispositions of peasants in rural China circa 1922-1923 relevant?
- da_lawyah 3y agoyah, Einstein would have the same assessment of you
- MichaelZuo 3y ago[flagged]
- MichaelZuo 3y agoHuh, looks like my other comment disappeared, anyways that seems remarkably unlikely, at least compared to random 'bashers'.
- yifanl 3y agoWhat does this comment mean? The internet is a commodity (well strictly speaking, it's not, but people agree that it _should_ be one), of course we're talking about the median person.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThe median person doesn't post on HN?
- JohnFen 3y agoI know I'm weird, but I get very suspicious and wary of expressions/demonstrations of tribalism itself. It's the main reason why I have a strong dislike of sports, for instance.