Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?
by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday December 20, 2019 @02:55PM
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> The alienation in the US very obviously has nothing to do with the internet, and in fact, I'd say the internet helped people be less alienated.
That is a very bold statement, with no data, that I can disprove by a simple counterfactual: me. I often feel more alienated because of the internet, mainly because I find it easier to replace "real" human interactions with, well, things like this, typing into a screen.
Of course, I have no idea if I'm representative of a significant sub-population of the US, but stating your opinion as a "very obvious", and somehow implying it is based in fact, is a logical fallacy.
That is a very bold statement, with no data, that I can disprove by a simple counterfactual: me. I often feel more alienated because of the internet, mainly because I find it easier to replace "real" human interactions with, well, things like this, typing into a screen.
Of course, I have no idea if I'm representative of a significant sub-population of the US, but stating your opinion as a "very obvious", and somehow implying it is based in fact, is a logical fallacy.