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It really doesn't take much to get people outraged. The last 20 years or so of social media, and cultural politics has taught us that. And enraged people are e
by bruce511 1y ago
It really doesn't take much to get people outraged. The last 20 years or so of social media, and cultural politics has taught us that.
And enraged people are easily manipulated. Americans were enraged after 9/11, and that engagement was quickly weaponized into the Patriot Act and the "War on Terror".
The flip side of all this enragement is a callous apathy. Things that really should concern me (like the eradication of due process) are hidden behind nonsense (like 1930 chimney sweeps) or the exhaustion of being enraged all the time.
- xucian 1y agothis is an incredibly overlooked angle, I think I never actually thought of this. thanks a lot, this makes a lot of sense
- normie3000 1y agoConceptually similar to disaster capitalism, perhaps? "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
- yen223 1y agoWere many people outraged by this photo? This is the first I've heard of the photo or the outrage, so I genuinely don't know
- bruce511 1y agoGet enough people and you'll find someone outraged about everything. If you want to modernize the analogy you might compare it to "school children identifying as cats and needing litterboxes" or any number of modern contemporary outrage over completely made up things.
- OJFord 1y ago> Get enough people and you'll find someone outraged about everything. Internet/modern culture in a nutshell, really. We're capable of being upset by things that 20 years ago we'd have had no idea of. Ditto then, by things we wouldn't have known of 20y prior to that.
- tap-snap-or-nap 1y agoHow are we supposed to find balance between the two? As soon as I thought of this question, I realized that I would need to practice it just like real life balancing.