People talk a lot of crap about "mob mentality" and stuff when we see mass outrage like in #amazonfail, but... it's really really hard to have a learned and soberly-considered opinion about every moral issue that you're involved in. It's practically a full-time job, and if you try to do all that work yourself, you'll inevitably stay five jumps behind all the people trying to screw you and your cohort over. Sometimes we just have to share the work of knowing the world, and freak out when the people we trust freak out. There are obvious problems with this, but I don't think we've found any other good way to push back against that sort of constant omnidirectional authoritarian onslaught. :/
Re: Technology doesn't want me talking smack.
People talk a lot of crap about "mob mentality" and stuff when we see mass outrage like in #amazonfail, but... it's really really hard to have a learned and soberly-considered opinion about every moral issue that you're involved in. It's practically a full-time job, and if you try to do all that work yourself, you'll inevitably stay five jumps behind all the people trying to screw you and your cohort over. Sometimes we just have to share the work of knowing the world, and freak out when the people we trust freak out. There are obvious problems with this, but I don't think we've found any other good way to push back against that sort of constant omnidirectional authoritarian onslaught. :/