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RE: The internet is a terrible place?
I also always thought that living on labels of uniqueness is much easier than swimming against the tide. When you are truly unique (although it is possible now?), you are often rejected and fall out of the crowd. And it is unlikely that you will create a new trend that will become popular the next day. This is a complex mechanism, as if you were going through a storm - it’s hard and cold for you, but you are trying to survive at all costs.
Globalization gave us the opportunity to observe the world and the lives of others, their habits and worldview, but nothing has changed, except now the choice for copying has become greater. just within the globe, lol.
Anything that’s required little to no effort would find wide mainstream appeal. Uniqueness by label alone allows us to perceive change without excercising change which is hard!
Let those labels be questioned and you’ll see how quickly people will abandon them, they have no allegiance to it
As for uniqueness I doubt you can really be all that unique only find yourself in a different minority of people!
Humans learn through immatation and repetition it’s how the schooling system teaches you how to improve as a person! We teach people what to think so they’re always looking for the next thing to copy
We never teach people how to think, why to think to when to think therein lies a fundamental flaw
sometimes when I think about it, I get scared.
you probably know what an "The overtone window" . so, if people are as much susceptible to popular opinion, are not attached to their personal beliefs and easily maneuver between their opinion and the opinion of the crowd, then they are very easy to convince of anything. any idea, even the most terrible and anti-human, can be beautifully explained and presented as a new trend. scary to think that any nonsense can be popular.
who knows, maybe in 10 years cannibalism will be a new fashion) we don’t even have to talk about uniqueness in this case)
Beliefs seem to be more of the flavour of the week
Sadly I feel that it is the case! Funny that you mention cannibalism, I actually read an article about a Swedish academic pitching cannibalism as a way to reduce global warming
There are so many conflicting opinions because people mean well but it doesn’t mean it ends well! The ends don’t justify the means!
Sometimes I fear for the human race because we always seem to be on the brink of some sort of crisis!
just a couple of hours ago, too, accidentally found this news. before that I read in detail about how to apply the idea of cannibalism in the framework of that theory. and it looked very convincing. I would not be surprised at such metamorphoses of society.
you are more right than ever. a sense of crisis and some kind of permanent fear constantly warms up humanity to invent new problems and solutions. until recently, many were frightened by global cooling, but today we are talking about warming. I would like to keep up with all the "urban legends")