(06-24-2020, 08:50 PM)Antisthenes Wrote:Quote:No, racism is not in our DNA, it is a learned response from our parents, friends, or others who have influence in our lives.
Totally agree. There are no bad seeds with exception to those born broken.The human brain seems to be a pretty delicate gizmo. Given how easily it goes all scrambled eggs I think a lot of what passes for evil is a messed up scrambled gizmo. So many variables, too. From the constant barrage of media gas-lighting to the poison in our food sources to outright birth defect. Then you have the nonsense parents perpetrate on their own offspring. I have to say that in the present, my perspective is that Social Media has done so much more to propagate than to mitigate the optics of evil. As Pogo so eloquently pointed out so many moons ago, "we have seen the enemy, and he is us".
I think that a lot of modern technology simply unveils problems that were always there.
In a sense, this brings them into the light so we can actually work on them, together. Obviously, we dont really take this approach lol
BUT!
When it comes to social media platforms, the harm they cause society and culture is absolutely massive. Whether the true extent of this harm was known when they were designed is almost immaterial. They were built, from the ground up, to foster addiction. The little dings, and "likes & shares," and all that give us constant dopamine hits throughout the day.
Whether by design, or simply the aforementioned unveiling of underlying problems, this slowly coalesced into more and more extreme views. Something that really gets people outraged will garner an immense amount of dopamine hits. And, the emotion itself can become habitual and return a dopamine hit too, particularly after enough times doing it.
At a certain point, in very typical addiction behavior, one looks to keep getting the same fix, or more. This causes an escalation, and eventually a full blown folie a plusieurs in participants.
Now.. If we throw in something like The Virus.. Wow! We are getting those dopamine hits from constant, relentless fear and all of the previous behavior that continues unabated.
Shut that valve off though, and the unconscious addiction persists. But, the tolerance has been amped up considerably. Now, what happens when we transfer it all to a single event that gets repeatedly blasted every where? It concentrates it.
Add into the mix a corporate-political system that wants to destabilize things so they can implement their own system..
And.. Here we are
