Re:Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid
by wayneftw on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:15PM
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You're comparing the civil war to people texting each other on social media.
Nobody has ever gone to actual war over personal opinions about cars, phones or computers.
Re:Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid
by noman-land on Monday August 31, 2020 @05:24PM
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People routinely destroy cities when sports teams win or lose. Get in brawls because someone is wearing the wrong color. The list goes on. Of course it's not the same, but the kernel of otherizing remains.
Re:Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid
by wayneftw on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:55PM
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OK, but nobody has ever destroyed a city over opinions about technology, among many, many other things that people argue about online such as favorite celebrity, music, cars, etc.
Just because you can cherry pick a couple of examples of people destroying things over their opinions, that doesn’t mean anybody’s going to actual war and it doesn’t mean that having opinions or even arguing about them is bad in general. It’s human nature.
I get the point though - being less opinionated can be good and if you find that you’re better without them then I support that. I have sometimes wished to go live on an island or in a cave myself, to escape the constant culture war but instead I just turn off my Internet devices. Most days I just wade through it to find the stuff I agree with.
Overzealous tribalism can lead to otherizing and dehumanizing and all sorts of terrible things. Let's save those side effects for things that are a little more important than which car you like to drive.