The sadist assault on the 'Coldplay couple'
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#2I'm reminded of this TED talk in these scenarios, by a journalist and author who interviewed many people who have been publicly shamed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI
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#3>Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it
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#4People are not owed prestige like being a CEO or fame. People are also never actually cancelled, but being cancelled has become a meme for many to aspire to. It is a shame when it happens to otherwise innocent people, but most everyone seems to mostly be talking about how HR is a scam now if they aren't talking about the memes.
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#5> True, the current culture on X and other social-media apps is perhaps less immediately destructive than it was during peak woke (circa 2017 to 2021).
Pardon?
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#6>Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it
... or, to be so, depending on what you are peddling.-
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#7> being in public with no intention to be filmed
This isn't a possible situation, and people would do well to internalize that. If someone said "being in public with no intention to be seen", it would be clear that it's unreasonable -- asking everyone to pretend you're invisible -- but change it to "seen and remembered with high fidelity" and people want to roll back to before constantly-filming cameras were common.
If you're in public, people may see you. If people can see you, they may preserve a memory of seeing you, internally or externally to their head.
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#8> Still, the viral potential of these kinds of stories is a warning sign that our culture is obsessed with shame, surveillance, and control. An obsession with other people’s private lives is a sickness.
I think (generally speaking) on the internet this is highly exacerbated by the dehumanization of others. For whatever reason, when we aren't face to face, we tend to not connect to the humanness of the people on the other end. This is easily observed when people get into cars and "observe" but don't connect with humans in the other cars who sometimes make suboptimal driving decisions that infringe on sensibilities ("that asshole cut me off! I'll drive recklessly around him to show him how angry I am"). Getting on the internet seems to make this even worse.
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#9> I wish I didn’t know who Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot are. As you no doubt know by now…
You have a choice to not write the article, and thereby not spread it.
In a Slack someone posted the statement from Astronomer, and I had no idea what the statement was referring to. Now I can’t get away from hearing about the story.
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#10If they hadn't thought that there was something shameful in what they were doing, they would not have reacted that way, and nobody would know who they are.
(Reference: everyone else, to a first approximation, ever highlighted by a kisscam.)
Ethical polygamists wouldn't have reacted that way. Friends with nothing to hide wouldn't have reacted that way.
If you have something to hide, being out in public and acting ashamed about it is terrible tradecraft.
I am not making a "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" dismissal; this is a "don't be stupid in public" dismissal.