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Be kind to your elders (lemmy.world)

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Holy shit thank you. You finally put it into words for me. The shift of 'the internet is the greatest tool for knowledge, to what it is now, some cancerous corpo bloated bullshit that ignorant people are harnessing just to find others to support their shitty beliefs. Been such a hard thing to watch and understand how the fuck we got here.

[–] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The shift of 'the internet is the greatest tool for knowledge, to what it is now, some cancerous corpo bloated bullshit

Spot on.

The worst part is that anyone who wasn’t around for the first 10ish years of the web has never seen how real and optimistic and grass roots and delightfully human it was.

We really lost a lot.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

We used to think pop ups were the worst that could happen. Good god were we wrong.

[–] Devmapall@lemm.ee 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I think it's lack of empathy as the root for everything.

Which I believe is opposite of human nature but here we are.

[–] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I’m reminded of this article from a couple of days ago in the Globe and Mail, specifically as a response to Musk’s anti-empathy comments: Empathy is not a Weakness, it’s a Strength

[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Empathy is easily used for propaganda as well. All those "immigrants are going to r your wife" and "radical elites transing your children" are the appeals to empathy that work very well (there are examples from the left too lets be honest, they're just less unhinged)

IMO you need empathy, rationality and introspection: empathy to feel for your fellow human, rationality to not fall for the grift, introspection to realize in what ways you were an idiot and self-correct.

The wave of scepticism that will inevitably come in 2030s will weed out the grifters, but I doubt it'll last. Time is a flat circle afterall.

[–] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I see your point but I don’t think you’re describing empathy as much as fear in your examples.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

There are some who think time is shaped like a Jeremy Bearamy...