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Right, definitely. Not as bound by (nearly as much) of a shared experience anymore. Which is good and bad.I thought it was a good read.
Been following a couple of writers that spend a lot of time in this sort of "online culture" space, and becoming more convinced that it matters more than most of us think it does or should. This stuff is spilling out into the "real world." Most dramatically in things like mass shootings. But also things like cancel culture, teen girl gender transitioning, radical politics, etc that are now part of the real world are rooted and influenced in these online cultures.
It's a weird world now, where more and more people's online lives are more real, and provide a more clear reward system, than their real lives. Anyone can find a community for whatever odd feelings or circumstances or kinks that they are experiencing, and that thing becomes identity. And those communities have their own rules, mores, traditions, aesthetics, etc that have nothing to do with normal culture and society as has been developed over the last 1000 years.
And there is no way for a culture or real world community to respond.
We are really headed for some very, very strange times.
Yes, I'm very curious what they look like.Pic of femcel?
Right, definitely. Not as bound by (nearly as much) of a shared experience anymore. Which is good and bad.
In a way, we're realizing the (classic) liberal individualist's dream: everybody gets to be how they want to be, and get to organize as they see fit. Less pressure to conform to any large scale societal standards. This is probably much better for people that would be outcasts or pushed aside to the fringe traditionally.
But as a result of this new infrastructure we're barely able to communicate with each other because we lead such different social existences. What was a net positive for the outcasts also caused a bunch of other things to go out whack. Oops.
(and of course then the communication level algorithms that encourage dysfunctional discourse online, to boot)