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Nuance has been completely lost on our society. If it doesn't spark immediate outrage or joy it has no place in our attention economy. I really wish this wasn't
by Ethee 3mo ago
Nuance has been completely lost on our society. If it doesn't spark immediate outrage or joy it has no place in our attention economy. I really wish this wasn't the case and I'm not sure how we can reverse it. Most people just aren't interested in the 'balanced takes' because it's just not exciting enough it seems sadly.
- nixpulvis 3mo agoI recently learned the term "thought-terminating cliché" and it's so incredibly prevalent in society these days. Always has been I'm sure, but short form text based anonymous communication must be making it worse.
- noman-land 3mo agoIt is what it is.
- arcanemachiner 3mo agoAnd that's just the way things are.
- mpalmer 3mo agoIt's a useful term but humorously risks becoming auto-exemplary.
- pydry 3mo agoThere is plenty of nuance to go around generally still but on any topic where there are incredibly powerful or wealthy parties spending a fortune pushing a narrative it immediately stops being possible. Nuance simply gets overwhelmed by repetition. The most recent opinion forming narrarive Ive been seeing repeated endlessly on this topic is about some supposed "split" in programmers between those who "enjoy the process" and those who "want the outcome". It is very carefully designed to miss the point and is some quite clever propaganda - it presupposes that the outcome is the same without directly stating it and implies that skeptics are dinosaurs without needing to be too direct about it.