Oddbean new post about login | logout @7fccbd65 Sure, but that immediate response thing has been around long before the dynamic arose of frivolous boycotts. If they were as closely linked as you suggest I would have expected them to both emerge at the same time, not with a 20 year lag. @98042630
@b05df304 @98042630 I think it was already here before, but it got a significant boom when smartphones became a thing & we got instant access to anything & everything. As for the rest... The world is becoming more extremist in its views. Ppl are being pushed further & further apart, to the point where we almost sound alien to one another. That happened slowly with major help from social media & the ease with which it groups us with similar thinking ppl while separating us from everyone else.
@7fccbd65 > I think it was already here before, but it got a significant boom when smartphones became a thing & we got instant access to anything & everything. I mean people canceled things before sure, and there were frivolous examples of it. But it was more of a rarity. It seems to be in overdrive the last few years (which is where the distinction comes in too) @98042630
@b05df304 @98042630 Granted, but its not the only thing that's in overdrive and frivolous nowadays. Which is why I said that it wasn't the problem, it was one symptom of the problem. Hopefully if (normally I'd say when, but I'm not so sure that it'll happen) things calm down, we'll see a return to a "normal cancel culture" like it was in the days of yore. 😅
@7fccbd65 Granted, but its not the only thing that’s in overdrive and frivolous nowadays. Agreed Which is why I said that it wasn’t the problem, it was one symptom of the problem. Also agree, it is more a symptom than the root problem. Hopefully if (normally I’d say when, but I’m not so sure that it’ll happen) things calm down, we’ll see a return to a “normal cancel culture” like it was in the days of yore. 😅 One can hope :) @98042630