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Posted29 days agoActive29 days ago
Why an internet of anonymous and psychopath accounts tends towards nihilism
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I largely agree. Plato leveled somewhat similar criticisms at the early use of the written word millenia ago. I think what's fundamentally different with internet communication is the timed nature of the medium, conveying a sense of pseudo-urgency that necessitates disagreements be input in a timely fashion, and that failure to do so will imply correctness or at least tacit agreement.
Incidentally, I find your comment significantly more substantive and thoughtful than Weinstein's.
29 days ago
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The Internet doesn't tend toward nihilism, and anonymous accounts have no real influence on the level of relative nihilism. Humanity, and it's refusal to get it's shit straight caused a catharsis of nihilistic sentiment through the widest reaching and most accessible medium. It being the Internet is just a consequence of it being there.
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