rascalnikov

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Even if that is the case, though you've provided no literature or evidence to substantiate such a grandiose claim, there are so many people who blindly support trump and would defend him against all logic and evidence. The fact that you see in many online spaces such massive support for a man like this is very concerning for democracy; just as it was when Hitler gained more and more support in his rise and seizure of power.

I think they are linked. Democracy can only work and thrive with an educated and/or informed population who is willing and able to have public and civil discourse. The fact that the political climate is the way it is now, so divided and only engaging to act on petty revenges, allows for fascism to take root. We saw this in Germany prior to the second World War. When NSDAP began beating people up in the street who opposed their ideology, with little repercussions for such behavior, led to the beer hall putsch, and eventually the rise of Herr Hitler. I can see parallels with the modern day political climate of America. The issue is that we voted them into the white house; I think that might even be more jarring than them being in there itself. Democratically voting a fascist in power is a tell tale sign that our democracy is not working.

Bro is already executing, he is beyond staging. Goes to show that knowledge isn't power in capitalism; you can be as retarded as they come and still fry shit on a national level; as long as you have the capital funds for it.

It is so surreal to see so many attack books. It's like we are regressing into the dark ages again.

This is something I have been thinking about for a little while now. I think it depends on why you are reading. If you are reading purely for the story or to gain information, then sure; but as someone who reads largely for the benefits that come with reading, i think it not only takes the fun out of it but you also lose the benefits and the gratification of finishing a book in the traditional sense. I'm interested in what other fellow bookish people think.

This is just a freestyle thought, but I think it may be in part to where the fantasy elements are drawn. For example, things like elves and hobbits are humanoids, portraying mainly humanoid traits -- just exaggerated like living a thousand years or having short height with massive feet. Or things that are purely imagination like dragons. Narnia, on the other hand, seems to make real life things betray what we know about them; like a talking lion. We have lions in reality and they don't talk. We don't have hobbits and dragons and elves in reality so we don;t have hard, preconceived notions about how these species should behave like we do with lions which makes us tend toward "realistic but alternate reality" vs "fantasy". This is just a rudimentary thought though.

The local versions I've tested out today are absolutely garbage. It frustrated me over simple questions.

I somewhat disagree. They don't want to forget, they want to finish the job. They have immense pride in something they should feel shame for. That, I think, is the issue. The unwillingness to feel shame, so they replace that feeling with over-zealous pride.

I can agree with that; but I also think that the average person has not the attention span for long form "macro-blogging" to use it as much as something like twitter or bluesky or microblogging platforms. I think this is why things like vine, tiktok, and twitter are so popular; its because they are all short form content. Things like tumblr, which I'm sure has declined for other reasons, but I'm also sure it is because no one wants to read a whole blog of someone they don't know, but they might read a few words or sentences and if they agree or find it funny or like it for whatever reason, they would be inclined to follow and keep up with that person and may be more inclined to read or give a chance to their content that is of longer form.

Fair enough, I just figured that as a social network, part of the goal is to connect new people together. You can look at Facebook in the same way you described it. That’s what its original purpose was. To just connect with people you already know, but I feel like social networking in general has since evolved from this. We can look at things like Facebook groups for example where it is more on the lines of what I’m thinking, people join groups that interest them and interact with like minded people that they have likely never met before.

I find the idea of using hashtags as the same.

I’m starting to realize that too. I might be more active on one than the other but it’s nice to have them all because it seems like a fuller experience; I am starting to see how they are complimentary.

I think either mastodon or pixelfed. I’m sure we are due to get a specific crowd — just from the political climate at the moment.