This article completely misses the mass radicalization young men have been exposed to through the internet. Growing up inundated by quotes from Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson can really fuck you up.
We absolutely must address how dangerous the internet is to our society. I think we as a species simply can’t handle the destructive potential of the internet (and ditto for News bubbles like Fox).
I think we’ve designed an environment that works assuming everyone is a rational person who can separate bullshit from real information and, unfortunately, a lot of people (young and adults) simply do not meet that requirement or don’t have the inclination to do so.
Yep, there’s a reason youth violence has gone through the roof: “conservative values”, ie. violence, narcissism, sadism and a complete lack of empathy.
We absolutely must address how dangerous the internet is to our society. I think we as a species simply can’t handle the destructive potential of the internet (and ditto for News bubbles like Fox).
Marshall McLuhan argued similarly in the 1960’s about the dangers of rushing forward with mass media, and stipulated that we had yet to understand the cultural impacts of language and writing, let alone (at the time) new media like telephones, radio, and television.
Traditionally humans have rushed headlong into any and all new communications methods without considering long-term consequences first, and study comes much later, if at all.
This article completely misses the mass radicalization young men have been exposed to through the internet. Growing up inundated by quotes from Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson can really fuck you up.
We absolutely must address how dangerous the internet is to our society. I think we as a species simply can’t handle the destructive potential of the internet (and ditto for News bubbles like Fox).
I think we’ve designed an environment that works assuming everyone is a rational person who can separate bullshit from real information and, unfortunately, a lot of people (young and adults) simply do not meet that requirement or don’t have the inclination to do so.
Not so much “the internet,” as the handful of corporations that we have allowed to run rampant for 20 years. The internet used to be great.
Yep, there’s a reason youth violence has gone through the roof: “conservative values”, ie. violence, narcissism, sadism and a complete lack of empathy.
Marshall McLuhan argued similarly in the 1960’s about the dangers of rushing forward with mass media, and stipulated that we had yet to understand the cultural impacts of language and writing, let alone (at the time) new media like telephones, radio, and television.
Traditionally humans have rushed headlong into any and all new communications methods without considering long-term consequences first, and study comes much later, if at all.
I guess that shit only missed me because I am gay? Like… I was radicalized by Hitchens and Dawkins before he went all terf.