Re:New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for ...
by munificent on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:39PM
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Yes, but those mechanisms evolved when shaming meant doing so in person to someone in front of a dozen other people in a hunter-gatherer society.
That same mechanism amplified by social media is no longer as adaptive. It's natural and fairly reasonable to snap at someone if they are rude to you. But if you jam a bullhorn in their face and yell into that, it's no longer appropriate. The emotion and impulse are the same, but the technology changes the manifestation of them.
Re:New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for ...
by s1artibartfast on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:40PM
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Tactics which evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago and worked in societies of 50 people are not all applicable today. Some actively lead to the division and extremism we we see today in our society
It’s also worth noting that these are mild measures compared to the other stick societies like to use, criminal law. If people felt confident that rapists were prosecuted not just in cases where their victims number in the dozens (Weinstein, Crosby), they wouldn’t feel the need to use social and economic pressure.
It's also nothing new: "In Ancient Greece the Athenians had a procedure known as "ostracism" in which all citizens could write a person's name on a shard of broken pottery (called ostraka) and place it in a large container in a public place. If an individual's name was written a sufficient number of times, he was "ostracized"—banished from the city for ten years. This was normally practiced against individuals who had behaved in some way that offended the community."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(person)