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Monsters is a interesting choice of words. Why call it monsters? Isn't polarization a good thing? If I was enslaved by tyrants making my life worse everyday, s

• txrx0000 1y ago
  More polarization is good if people are allowed to naturally polarize in different directions. Alignment between individuals are supposed to emerge naturally, forming small groups that are internally polarized in the same direction. Democracy would work fine in that society. But now we have huge online mobs that are homogenously polarized that want to kill eachother. It gets violent when the group size reaches the nation-state level because that's where most of the violence and oppression in our society is siloed. We have to limit group sizes online. Before social media, it was physically limited by the difficulty of meeting up in person. But now groups just keep getting larger and more homogenous.
• Jensson 1y ago
  > If I was enslaved by tyrants making my life worse everyday, shouldn't I be opposed by their ways? That wouldn't create polarization, it would create extremely strong cohesion since everyone else enslaved by those tyrants would agree with you.
  • zwnow 1y ago
    I dont know, stockholm syndrome exists and I feel like its very relevant in modern society considering how many people are bootlickers for their employers. I agree that people with an anti humanistic worldview being able to network is very dangerous. But most polarization I've personally witnessed are people not wanting to live in a system that heavily favors the rich without forcing them to contribute in the same amount poorer people do. People just wanna buy houses and be able to afford a family, while houses are being used as speculative objects by the rich.