A common humanity -- reasons for hope for 2023 from washpo (citation at end) --Megan McArdle
I spend less time than I used to yelling at people on social media. Moreover, I talk to more and more people who say the same thing. People seem to have gotten bored with the pathological rage-seeking and virtue-signaling behavior that has characterized so much of the internet for the past five or 10 years — particularly for media and academia.
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The bullying disguised as piety, the compulsive need to find offense where none was intended, and the deliberate provocations intended to work the other side up into a frenzy are not what the cool people are doing anymore, thank heavens.
It was always fatiguing, and now, apparently, the excitement has been exhausted.
So my great hope for 2023 is that perhaps, instead of looking for reasons to hate each other, we might start rediscovering our common humanity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/27/reasons-hope-2023/
@brewsterkahle Considering the power if anger and hatred in generating engagement, I think such a shift would be more impressive than we're probably comfortable admitting.
Moving away from commercial social media platforms would be a start. Maybe this will also be the year Murdoch retires for good. Having a legitimate target for hatred in Putin might sow a seed of unity among all but the too far gone.
More than anything, maybe we're all just tired of the bs. One can hope.
@sab
I so hope you are right-- we need to get over this plight.
we get to see if the depravity we have seen on social media was covid or not (seems like not), if it is commercial or not (hopefully this is a big difference).