Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
by kaba0 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:58AM
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Except that it doesn’t spread that way? And that it had always been around. We have just started paying attention to it.
Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
by CRConrad on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:05PM
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Maybe we notice it more because we're paying more attention to it... Or maybe because there actually is more of it, since it now can be transmitted more efficiently -- has become "contagious" in a way it wasn't before. Hard to tell which it is.
The analogy breaks down when you start to try and think of what our "vaccine" might be, though perhaps education can be a rough proxy. It's also possible there's nothing we can do, and we've reached a spread that is incurable...