Google is not just a platform – It frames, shapes and distorts how we see

Re:Google is not just a platform – It frames, shapes and dis... by jayajay on Sunday December 11, 2016 @05:14PM (#13153695)

This. There's a point even in academic fields where you find a particular community divided by subjectivity (strings vs. quantum gravity). I think the scientific attitude of "remaining skeptical" has served us pretty well in the past. But when it comes to emotional stuff, people just have a really hard time.

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Re:Google is not just a platform – It frames, shapes and dis... by fjdlwlv on Sunday December 11, 2016 @07:22PM (#13154484)

You need to distinguish "remaining skeptical" from bring "willfully ignorant".

You should be skeptical of people who questions widely agreed historical facts as well.

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Re:Google is not just a platform – It frames, shapes and dis... by jayajay on Sunday December 11, 2016 @09:03PM (#13154970)

You're right. Another thing that scares me is how we interpret history based on who wins. We've all heard the true saying "the winners write the history books".

We all might have been saying things like "it's a good thing we killed all of those fucking jews, it definitely saved humanity from being tainted" without anyone flinching.

This is the kind of stuff you still hear in neo-nazi circles. But imagine -- if we all thought that.

It sure is poetic how little of a choice we have in our opinions and world views, yet how passionate we are about them. Most people reading this right now would never think themselves capable of thinking such a thing.

If things turned out differently, the accepted world-view might be that certain lineages are tainted and that they reduce the pureness of people -- it may have been punishable to even dispute this.

Anyways, perspective.

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