Social Justice Warriors Thread

[jediuser598]

And I spend a lot more time just letting shit go.

That's the strangest part to me, IRL I can walk away and pretty much let it go 99% of the time (it's gotta be getting screwed over financially or outright lied to, to my face, to really piss me off - otherwise it's just "a stupid human disagreement over pointless shit").

Somehow online people seem to really hold on to pointless stuff, and get really really upset about the slightest disagreement.

Because you have to.

Imagine you didn't, what would happen IRL? You'd be damn near non-functional.

[BjornP]

I don't think Hobbes anticipated a social space where humans communicated without being able to see each other's faces and bodies and hear the tone, pitch, volume and the range of emotion in the voices of the people we are talking to...

The internet is not communication with "no filter", it is mass communication with too many filters.

[jediuser598]

I don't think Hobbes anticipated a social space where humans communicated without being able to see each other's faces and bodies and hear the tone, pitch, volume and the range of emotion in the voices of the people we are talking to...

The internet is not communication with "no filter", it is mass communication with too many filters.

Letters.

[BjornP]

I don't think Hobbes anticipated a social space where humans communicated without being able to see each other's faces and bodies and hear the tone, pitch, volume and the range of emotion in the voices of the people we are talking to...

The internet is not communication with "no filter", it is mass communication with too many filters.

Letters.

...are not the same thing.

[GloryofGreece]

I don't think Hobbes anticipated a social space where humans communicated without being able to see each other's faces and bodies and hear the tone, pitch, volume and the range of emotion in the voices of the people we are talking to...

The internet is not communication with "no filter", it is mass communication with too many filters.

Yea he didn't anticipate that no one did. But he did say what happens without order ....chaos /Barbary / that's the internet hence my statement

[Fife]

Yeah, that's what ole Hobbsie was preaching about, good old-fashioned "order."

Same as it ever was.

[GloryofGreece]

Yeah, that's what ole Hobbsie was preaching about, good old-fashioned "order."

Same as it ever was.

Yea you know a State.

[BjornP]

I don't think Hobbes anticipated a social space where humans communicated without being able to see each other's faces and bodies and hear the tone, pitch, volume and the range of emotion in the voices of the people we are talking to...

The internet is not communication with "no filter", it is mass communication with too many filters.

Yea he didn't anticipate that no one did. But he did say what happens without order ....chaos /Barbary / that's the internet hence my statement

He sure did. Problem with Hobbes, though, is that he wants a strong, centralized State to apply order in society, for society. Because he has no trust in people being able to govern themselves, no trust in non-state society. I tend to disagree with that. Those lack of filters I speak of a few lines up? Does not imply a desire for more control . It is simply a fact that citizens need to keep in mind when communicating on mass media platforms, iow education. You had a president who said it well:

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." - Thomas Jefferson

[Speaker to Animals]

End result of atheism and the Enlightenment is the Leviathan.

[Montegriffo]

I don't think Hobbes anticipated a social space where humans communicated without being able to see each other's faces and bodies and hear the tone, pitch, volume and the range of emotion in the voices of the people we are talking to...

The internet is not communication with "no filter", it is mass communication with too many filters.

Now we have the sarcasm emoji all that has been solved