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I'm Tired of These Stochastic Invocations
What's been wild about the social media age has been seeing stratification between classes laid bare.
To me the revelation was the prevalence - not to mention incurability - of crass selfish stupidity regardless the economic class. I'm way more wary/distrustful of others than I was pre "Eternal September".
(Arguably funny mock product idea: "Instant Vile: Just Add Text!")
It's exhausting, though I'm not naive enough to think there was ever an era where the internet was perfect. Awful things have existed in its dark corners forever. But somewhere around the confluence of the smartphone and the platform, things got decidedly worse.
To me, individuality is a mental illness driving antisocial behavior, and thus social misery in a given space is necessarily proportional to number of sick participants. The words "Eternal September" describe a moment in time when a critical mass of anti-socials accumulated in a social space. Kaboom! Kadoom!
It sounds like if Musk wants public funds, his company needs to actually do the necessary work. Instead of buying a social media company and running it into the ground, tweeting erratically, he could focus on the work of doing work instead. But he can never, will never log off. He's cursed with a desire to post while at the same time lacking any ability to do it well. We're all worse off for it. We unlock our phone. A tweet comes across our feed. We grimace. _Christ, what did those assholes say this time._
If it wasn't Musk it would be someone else. So it's not "those" i.e. Musk et. al. unless the "those"/"et. al." includes all who *would* be that level of asshole if they could. I believe the state of the world demonstrates most individuals would.
I've felt it in Gemini spaces as well, e.g.:
Perhaps protocol and/or document syntax don't a community make?
Dec 15 · 13 days ago
I think it's the first time I am happy with Biden... Someone has to stand up to that psychopath. Of course Binden is likely a bigger psychopath than Musk...