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Another thing came to mind. Social media and the online world. On the one hand we have seen identity politics be cultivated from earlier decades. The political became the personal or the personal became the political. Either way politics was becoming more personal and encroaching into the private sphere.
But at the same time the internet was developed and then post 2000 social and legacy media and its created the perfect storm. Not only were culture wars being cultivated through identity politics. But also an environment where that culture war could go behind closed doors and attack people through words and narratives.
In other words a virtual and unreal world has been created which dehumanises because its behind a machine and screen. I think this has become a catalyst for increasing hate and detachment between people and making it easier for the volnurable to fall into that unreal virtual culture war that treats opposing voices as enermies to be taken out like in some video game.
There has been a rise in antisemetism, political assassinations and attacks. We seen this being cultivated prior by cancel culture where people were losing jobs. Now its losing life. The political climate now is that more people see violence as a legitimate means.
Whereas face to face interaction can make it more real. You see peoples eyes and experience human emotion and you see the reality of your thinking and behaviour as it really is. This helps bring things into perspective and makes it real.
So I think as the culture war was already heating up as a result of what I think was socially engineered over previous decades. So has the dehumanising of society through modern tech and media where people see others as unhuman and threats like some virus or cancer.
Which is sort of always the reason human evil happens. But in this case its a perfect storm of our own making and against ourselves.
But at the same time the internet was developed and then post 2000 social and legacy media and its created the perfect storm. Not only were culture wars being cultivated through identity politics. But also an environment where that culture war could go behind closed doors and attack people through words and narratives.
In other words a virtual and unreal world has been created which dehumanises because its behind a machine and screen. I think this has become a catalyst for increasing hate and detachment between people and making it easier for the volnurable to fall into that unreal virtual culture war that treats opposing voices as enermies to be taken out like in some video game.
There has been a rise in antisemetism, political assassinations and attacks. We seen this being cultivated prior by cancel culture where people were losing jobs. Now its losing life. The political climate now is that more people see violence as a legitimate means.
Whereas face to face interaction can make it more real. You see peoples eyes and experience human emotion and you see the reality of your thinking and behaviour as it really is. This helps bring things into perspective and makes it real.
So I think as the culture war was already heating up as a result of what I think was socially engineered over previous decades. So has the dehumanising of society through modern tech and media where people see others as unhuman and threats like some virus or cancer.
Which is sort of always the reason human evil happens. But in this case its a perfect storm of our own making and against ourselves.
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