There's a fellow I know who is sensible, perceptive, and reasoning ... all until someone waves an American flag. Then his eyes roll back, his head starts spinning around, and he starts puking green stuff.
So I sez, dude, dude, what happened?
He sez, patriotism.
I sez, holy shit, your patriotism looks a whole lot like Linda Blair when the Devil was playing her like a badly-tuned violin and, oh geez, don't do that with a crucifix.
That kind of radical polarization is something which seems to have been substantially exacerbated by social networks and I suspect it's because of their cloistered nature insofar as content goes into them but rarely comes back out. Twitter isn't all that social but it's useful for pushing information outbound while Facebook and Google, etc are just black holes from which nothing escapes and all demonstrate a puerile parochialism which is hailed as a revolution but looks more like cultural suicide.
That they willingly accede to Mark Zuckerberg's Victorian standards is one of the aspects of cultural suicide since who is he to set a standard for anything and particularly one so regressive and narrow-minded. They say they do it for the children but I've never seen a kid on Facebook and have no desire to see one.
We know nothing online is real so it's impossible to know how much people are playing any particular position simply for effect. For example, the raised fist from the Mexico Olympics and seen lately during performances of the National Anthem was said to be 'racist.' However, that unilaterial sentiment comes from the bright fellow at the top and we know he is easily capable of multilateral thinking so there's some other variable.
Maybe it's an act because it's online, it's not real, so wtf.
Maybe it is real and the thinking hardened because of constant online reinforcement via social network cloistering with friends selected consciously or unconsciously for the same reason, all reinforce similar thinking.
There's no way to know for sure but seeing the phenomenon manifesting frequently in multiple people gives more and more credence to the idea it's something endemic in social networks in terms of views hardening and possibly being exacerbated to greater extremes as well. Election 2016 is an example of it because it's become like a really bad game of chess in which the only interest is annihilating the soul of the opponent and in the sleaziest way possible. At least good chess tries to bring some elegance to sucking the soul out of someone.
Yesterday, assuming you can shelve the anger to look at it objectively, was a riot. The morning had #NeverForget with lots and lots of predictable and highly unilateral sentiment. That was completely forgotten by NFL game time and there was even a Miss America pageant that night. And you say I'm 'all over the place?' (larfs)
Some hours later people were flaming about a salute instead of a hand over the heart or something for the Anthem in football games. That invites a whole lot of questions as, man, will you forget about this in the morning just like the other or do you just stay pissed off all the time about everything?
See above, it's not real. The general Rockhouse thinking is most of it is an act with the extreme polarization but you have to be careful out there since there are plenty of nitwits who take it as Gospel and toying with them is not likely such a good idea.
(Ed: you're as radical as they come!)
Bloody hell, I'm not. In fact my views are generally moderate in terms of peaceful rather than predatory relationships with other nations, true equality for everyone, and an equal shot at the brass ring for every kid in the crowd. If that's radical, I'm on the wrong fookin' bus (larfs).
That people call me radical doesn't make it so and see above about online polarization.
So I sez, dude, dude, what happened?
He sez, patriotism.
I sez, holy shit, your patriotism looks a whole lot like Linda Blair when the Devil was playing her like a badly-tuned violin and, oh geez, don't do that with a crucifix.
That kind of radical polarization is something which seems to have been substantially exacerbated by social networks and I suspect it's because of their cloistered nature insofar as content goes into them but rarely comes back out. Twitter isn't all that social but it's useful for pushing information outbound while Facebook and Google, etc are just black holes from which nothing escapes and all demonstrate a puerile parochialism which is hailed as a revolution but looks more like cultural suicide.
That they willingly accede to Mark Zuckerberg's Victorian standards is one of the aspects of cultural suicide since who is he to set a standard for anything and particularly one so regressive and narrow-minded. They say they do it for the children but I've never seen a kid on Facebook and have no desire to see one.
We know nothing online is real so it's impossible to know how much people are playing any particular position simply for effect. For example, the raised fist from the Mexico Olympics and seen lately during performances of the National Anthem was said to be 'racist.' However, that unilaterial sentiment comes from the bright fellow at the top and we know he is easily capable of multilateral thinking so there's some other variable.
Maybe it's an act because it's online, it's not real, so wtf.
Maybe it is real and the thinking hardened because of constant online reinforcement via social network cloistering with friends selected consciously or unconsciously for the same reason, all reinforce similar thinking.
There's no way to know for sure but seeing the phenomenon manifesting frequently in multiple people gives more and more credence to the idea it's something endemic in social networks in terms of views hardening and possibly being exacerbated to greater extremes as well. Election 2016 is an example of it because it's become like a really bad game of chess in which the only interest is annihilating the soul of the opponent and in the sleaziest way possible. At least good chess tries to bring some elegance to sucking the soul out of someone.
Yesterday, assuming you can shelve the anger to look at it objectively, was a riot. The morning had #NeverForget with lots and lots of predictable and highly unilateral sentiment. That was completely forgotten by NFL game time and there was even a Miss America pageant that night. And you say I'm 'all over the place?' (larfs)
Some hours later people were flaming about a salute instead of a hand over the heart or something for the Anthem in football games. That invites a whole lot of questions as, man, will you forget about this in the morning just like the other or do you just stay pissed off all the time about everything?
See above, it's not real. The general Rockhouse thinking is most of it is an act with the extreme polarization but you have to be careful out there since there are plenty of nitwits who take it as Gospel and toying with them is not likely such a good idea.
(Ed: you're as radical as they come!)
Bloody hell, I'm not. In fact my views are generally moderate in terms of peaceful rather than predatory relationships with other nations, true equality for everyone, and an equal shot at the brass ring for every kid in the crowd. If that's radical, I'm on the wrong fookin' bus (larfs).
That people call me radical doesn't make it so and see above about online polarization.
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