I’m not even vulgar or impolite. I just speak my mind, and it infuriates people
Does anyone have similar experiences?
Absolutely. I usually expecthope for freedom of opinion, but here’s not the place for it. Even the most neutral or balanced opinion gets you into trouble when it’s a loaded topic. Open discussions do rarely happen. People have become so very oversensitive.
Thinking about the 70’s and 80’s when students could even live together in shared flats, some on the extreme political right, others on the extreme left, both reading their thought leaders original texts and sometimes we discussed for nights long.
The computer really changed social life dramatically. I was forming conciousness in 2005/6 before smartphones. My home didn’t have a home computer or anything. People engaged with each other. I spent most of my time outside. Later on in 2010s, I began using the internet. The internet revealed so much insight, made me lose faith in my parents’ religion quicker than perhaps natural. It made me more isolated due to learning more fringe but compelling ideologies and religions like buddhism, libertarianism, veganism, etc. I think the internet isolates ideologically, but the computer screen also isolates by grabbing bodies and sucking the soul out of them. “Digital zombies” is the term I’m thinking of. Every minute or second spent with a screen is NOT spent with a human being in real life, and that’s a big, big problem with the average screen time being 4-8hrs per day.
Absolutely. I usually
expectThinking about the 70’s and 80’s when students could even live together in shared flats, some on the extreme political right, others on the extreme left, both reading their thought leaders original texts and sometimes we discussed for nights long.
The computer really changed social life dramatically. I was forming conciousness in 2005/6 before smartphones. My home didn’t have a home computer or anything. People engaged with each other. I spent most of my time outside. Later on in 2010s, I began using the internet. The internet revealed so much insight, made me lose faith in my parents’ religion quicker than perhaps natural. It made me more isolated due to learning more fringe but compelling ideologies and religions like buddhism, libertarianism, veganism, etc. I think the internet isolates ideologically, but the computer screen also isolates by grabbing bodies and sucking the soul out of them. “Digital zombies” is the term I’m thinking of. Every minute or second spent with a screen is NOT spent with a human being in real life, and that’s a big, big problem with the average screen time being 4-8hrs per day.