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If you don't mind me asking, is there a reason why it's 7 minutes and not, say, 5 or 10?
why 5 or 10 rather than 7, hm?
What about -∞?
I Quit Social Media for a Year
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#172I quit Facebook for a few years, it didn't do anything to my life one way or another, except maybe put me in a group of people others had to reach out "out of band" to invite to things, which practically meant I had to hear about events second hand or not go to things. The emotional vitriol inspired by social media is completely unfounded. You can make it whatever experience you want; people just like to complain. Th…
Missing out on invites can be a benefit to the time poor, which is probably most of us. I already don't have time for all the things I want to do and don't need the guilt of ignoring requests from people I rarely/never hang out with, I suspect this is why so many people select the maybe option to events.
I might miss an awkward BBQ with an old friend I never see but I'll be doing something else worthwhile, often with someone I have a more meaningful relationship with. And all the big events in life like weddings, funerals and major milestone birthday's are handled by personal invitations anyway.
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#173Sounds like a poor millennial affliction.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that Western civilization as in the minds of it's inhabitants likely wouldn't have existed without the subjugation and exploitation of those other societies, including but not limited to: China, India, the Middle East, most of Africa minus Ethiopia, and even some parts of Europe, and much more recently, South America. The West has largely won because it won a lot back in the day, and that inertia builds up and…
There is no realistic scenario where one civilization does not dominate others. Macro-history is fundamentally about the rise and fall of civilizations - the undesirable elements of this are consistent, but Western tradition and enlightenment has also given us democracy and science, and put us in a collective position where we are so relatively prosperous that we can look at the past with an inflated sense of shame.
Failing to see how this is responsive to parent’s observation that white privilege is a thing.
Maybe you’re arguing that if the enlightenment never happened we wouldn’t have the set of egalitarian political values that cause us to give a shit about that. But even if that argument were true: the enlightenment did happen and we do care. And you’re not really articulating any reason we shouldn’t.
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If you're going to say that Western society was built with white males as the presumed default, you might want to also mention who the builders were. And as a broader point, it also might be worth considering how Western society stacks up against all other societies to ever exist.
Slave labor built this country.
I don't see how such sweeping statements about the nature of a country are useful.
Slave labor was only one component of practically all great countries/empires. The West was the first to outlaw it.
The US in particular was built upon the hard-earned lessons of the past, including the moral worth of individual liberty.
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I used to "protest" and then the country overwhelming voted for the authoritarian far-right party. I shifted to apathy and it is truly liberating.
uh hilary won the popular vote and far right really? did your life change at all? whats that make china then? what about the far left policing everyone on what they can say and do? youre getting caught up in the news narrative
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#178"I feel by far less distracted. My attention span feels more robust than it ever has." I would consider this magical.
Why's that?
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#179I used to go on Facebook quite a lot, and then suddenly I just stopped. I haven't deleted my profile (a lot easier to find people I've lost touch with than trying to get a phone number or something) but for some reason it just doesn't tempt me, and it's very surprising. I'm on Reddit & YouTube far too much (and I would be here too much too if the front page weren't nearly so slow in comparison). I really just don't understand.
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Haven’t we always done this though? It seems like it’s more that social media has made the playing field 10^9 instead of 10^3.
pre social media was 10^3? I was thinking more "10 to 20". I suppose from person to person and at different stages of life the filter of who is appropriate for your playing field might change. . but even 10^2 seems high. I can barely name 20 critically important people in my life let alone those which are on my playing field. I have managed this, a bit unconsciously. Generally when my field is managed in line with my…
For most people it's supposedly something like 10^2.5 or ~300 people in your monkey sphere of varying levels of importance. So, in an exponential sort of way its decent rounding :P