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What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience (2021)

bsenftner

So close to being useful. The situation is far more serious: question everything. Question your education, and why there is so much emphasis on obedience and team playing, yet next to nothing on strategy or communications. Question these political parties that have inserted themselves into our politics, yet they are not mentioned in the Constitution nor Amendments and in fact several of the USA's founding fathers were strongly against their formation. Question your bosses income, versus your own, and why you're working for others at all. Question all the pointless gatekeeping. Question the motivations of anything anyone states as a point of advocacy for them, and not a point of fact of what they are talking about.

roenxi

This article was too rambly for me, but I got about 6 paragraphs in and became disappointed at how long it was taking to get to the obvious point about online experiences - online forums are dominated by terminally online people. According to my observations [0], the terminally online are just a completely different demographic from the average healthy & happy human who don't have the time or inclination for that.

It is pretty obvious every time any country has an election or any policy debate comes up that the priorities of the sort of people who write or comment on the internet represent the median view more by accident than intent when it does happen. They're typically very isolated voices.

cal_dent

I do always think there is some truth to the classic reddit post that says most of what you read on the internet is written by someone insane

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...

CommenterPerson

Yes. I agree with the gist of it but, TLDR.

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