a lot of interpersonal problems come from the fact that every dipshit can hop on the internet and give their stupidass opinion and vent their feelings in a context that suggest they're trying to give life advice or advocate for social justice or whatever. and because all of this goes in the same swirling morass as every other stupid god damned thing on the internet which includes people trying to do various levels of education on life advice and social justice, a lot of people then hoover up every well written textpost uncritically without any thought to "is this person a dumbass, are they just posting straight poop from a butt, are they actually just mad at their recent tinder date, are they actually from some insanely weird set of niche life circumstances that has made them all wrong." and just incorporate poasts into their worldview.
once I realized that a lot of people were in fact just uncritically absorbing well spoken points made on lefty twitter, podcasts, and popularly screengrabbed tumblr posts, it made sense why a ton of people are fucking nuts and also stupid.
Like yeah man, it is perfectly logical that you feel fucked up and bad inside about yourself if you're on this website, there's a ton of contradictory but equally condemnatory rules established by anonymous figures with no responsibility to their content.
in a previous world, this kind of assinine shit shooting that comprises the early 21st century "poast" would instead take the form of two shitters shooting shit in person or on the phone. in which case, they don't have the opportunity to edit and plan the statements and you can see how uncommitted or emotional or unserious the dumb cocksucker is because he's someone sitting across from you and you more or less got him figured out.
If one of the mentally ill teenagers on the internet or deeply mentally ill moral scrupulosity 30 somethings on this website tried to convince you that if you were a man you needed to kill yourself for political reasons and that actually you're a rapist colonizer if you eat any food that casts a shadow, well, the bevy of other senses provided to you besides reading comprehension would kick in and you would realize "oh, this person is fucking nuts. not just because the contents of their statement make me upset, but they're noticeably unwell. I think maybe I don't need to seriously consider the philosophical, legal, ethical, or political stances they're suggesting due to how manic and also unemployed and isolated they are."
but the internet has given an unfair advantage to both the charlatan and also the educated nihilist.
A shocking number of neo nazi terrorists in one of the atomwaffen offshoots were unable to tell that one of the loudest voices leading them towards acts of violence was a fucking 12 year old. But if you're both kind of a dullard and also conditioned to seriously contend with any ideas presented to you polemically, any 12 year old who reads above grade level damn well might convince you. A precocious 12 year old charlatan wouldn't convince you in physical space, but if you consider online to be on the same level of importance as real life (and why wouldn't you? everything is online now in the first world, outside doesn't exist) then I can see how you could be easily sucked in by this.
In a similar sense, you get people on this website with a mile long set of identity markers who can't make their own phone calls who will be able to spend all day arguing online. You notice this especially in the disability advocacy circles, people who literally can not go outside and are stuck online start metaphorically crawling the walls and can use their seemingly endless spare time to philosophize reasons for whatever solipsistic politics they've convinced themselves of.
but someone had to write this. someone had to film every viral video. every reaction is because someone decided to record it.
we very easily lose our sense of selves because the separation between the human and the thing representing themselves on the internet is as thin as it's ever been.
Oh wow, that person has a bunch of thoughts to put out online, always seems able and willing to argue and is quite good at it?
they had to spend the time to do that. what does that mean? what does it represent about someone if they seemingly always are embroiled in some controversy even if they always come out seeming smart and charming? they sought this out, they're actively engaging with this swill instead of living.
Hell, i'm sitting here typing this manically at 2 in the goddamn morning, I'm no different than any of these bozos.
and maybe that's the gist of it. We should reflexively not trust any set of social media paragraphs that seem too slick, anyone who's too good at this, and who's able to put out a high volume of thoughts.
because how the fuck do you get good at doing that, what do you sacrifice elsewhere to become good at the internet, what life experiences might that preclude you from?
and if you met the type of person who matches that description in person, might there be a good deal of signifiers telling you that no matter how convincing their argument is, it may not be wise to listen to them?
baratheonpilled
izzy806
dailybridgerton
blakekathryn
andulkaphoto
turnnoffyourmind
jbbartram-illu
