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| engrguy42:
Coincidentally, the other day I was listening to a clinical psychologist who was discussing his views of the real motivations behind those who get so emotionally involved in these types of "social justice" issues. And he seemed to echo what my view has been after being around people for many decades. He postulated that people who feel bad about themselves (low self esteem, for whatever reasons) avoid dealing with those things by adopting "pseudo-moralistic" stances on whatever big social issues they can find, solely to look good to their friends and neighbors, thereby building their own egos. And I think social media is greatly amplifying this effect. Now you can tweet to 10,000 people about how awesome you are, and you can build a huge demonstration showing how noble you are with few selfies. It's never about facts and data, and identifying real problems and finding real solutions. It's about emotion and ego by people who don't even understand the issues, much less how to effectively deal with them. Nor do they even want to understand the issues. And sadly, I think the social media amplification effect is now affecting our corporate and government leaders, so now even they cave to the loud, emotional voices so they'll stay popular. That's really what's changed, IMO, in recent decades. The "adults in the room" have now caved to the shallow, emotional shouting, mainly because social media is so prevalent. We're doomed. |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
Jordan Peterson ? |
| cliffyk:
--- Quote from: engrguy42 on June 12, 2020, 08:50:45 pm ---Coincidentally, the other day I was listening to a clinical psychologist who was discussing his views of the real motivations behind those who get so emotionally involved in these types of "social justice" issues. And he seemed to echo what my view has been after being around people for many decades. He postulated that people who feel bad about themselves (low self esteem, for whatever reasons) avoid dealing with those things by adopting "pseudo-moralistic" stances on whatever big social issues they can find, solely to look good to their friends and neighbors, thereby building their own egos. And I think social media is greatly amplifying this effect. Now you can tweet to 10,000 people about how awesome you are, and you can build a huge demonstration showing how noble you are with few selfies. It's never about facts and data, and identifying real problems and finding real solutions. It's about emotion and ego by people who don't even understand the issues, much less how to effectively deal with them. Nor do they even want to understand the issues. And sadly, I think the social media amplification effect is now affecting our corporate and government leaders, so now even they cave to the loud, emotional voices so they'll stay popular. That's really what's changed, IMO, in recent decades. The "adults in the room" have now caved to the shallow, emotional shouting, mainly because social media is so prevalent. We're doomed. --- End quote --- I have also heard this put forth, and my empirical experience backs it up. My issue with social media is that like "call-in" talk shows, 99.44% of the population has nothing meaningful to add to almost any discussion.. |
| cliffyk:
No need to apologise; your English is far superior to my ability in any other language except maybe C++... |
| pepelevamp:
i have noticed this trend as-well. its easy to beat down small villains on twitter than actually go after corrupt officials or march in the street. now after this evening i do know roughly first hand of at least a handful of cases where yeah, someone felt kinda shit having to stare down master/slave in code bases each day. one example was a teacher who taught youths. but it took me all night to find. and ive also found african american people on twitter who think its stupid & dont care. the over-whelming majority of posts about this and people talking about it are white. so yeah there's some reasoning behind it, yeah, but between you & me - renaming/refactoring code is trivial, & i have no emotional attachment to master/slave ICs - its the attitude pushing this which I am critical of. ive found its basically impossible to find a tweet mentioning this which doesnt instantly critique a perceived opponent of it. and its damn impossible (so far) to find a non-white person bringing it up. my conclusion is like all these things - there may be some backing logic somewhere - but the real push comes from the ability to beat down on somebody else for not being woke enough. its just like the cops. given even the smallest ability to beat down on your fellow human, some people will take it & beat beat beat. |
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