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No it isn’t.

Yes I do: right now most are at home taking no direct political action. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, which isn’t under threat of military destruction but an emotional/social way of life? In the face of a so-called authoritarian regime, no less.

America? The vast majority of the political drama on Twitter is generated by 6% of its user base.

If you’re using the internet as your bubble to measure political actions, you could be talking to a way smaller group than you expect.

Western sensibilities, according to history, are to let bastards take over without lifting a real finger.

See Europe in the early 1900s.

Ooo yes you’re so angry but impotent rage & nothing is also another emotional American.

I’m a sheltered cynic?

Extrapolate all you want about my individual character cause you’re annoyed about abstract descriptions.

They must emotionally ring true for you to be taking such a cynical tone and really caring this much.

Oh yes it’s easy to wrap yourself in a sense you’re a do gooder who has it all figured out while ignoring the generally humanity has been like this since society began.

If everyone really mattered to us humanity would have ceased long ago. After the first person died we’d be so anguished we’d die. But that’s not true in our objective universe and I’m sure you’re going fix humanities indifference towards itself. Mmhmm

Grow up

Notice how I wrote “in America we”.

But you’re right a sample of a handful of grumpy commenters should be extrapolated directly to the public at large. Ok. Nailed me to the wall there, bud. Gj!

Instead of politically organizing you’re babysitting other people’s personal views of the shitshow. #winning

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, directly in defiance of an authoritarian regime...

Relatively speaking in “free America” a bunch of “polite” people, when measured by time spent undertaking direct political (not their online impotent rage) we have what?

I like to believe it’s because deep inside we know they wouldn’t hesitate right? They clamp down hard early:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Uc_Davis_Pepp...

The year was an arbitrary choice.

People used to have to, except in the political context, move on from such experiences. Being able to recall a few quotes of much different than sitting there importing it all verbatim over and over.

For minute in all-the-minutes: LiterallyWatch(FavoriteShow)

There was no preservation, books wore out, etc etc

They were forced to emotionally process as part of assimilating the info and seek out new info.

I am describing an abstract process and how it’s changed to where we can reconnect instantly to past emotional selves.

We keep certain pathways lubed and hot without generating new ones through exploration of new truly unique sensory input (how many for loops does a programmer write over and over? Oh sure the JSON content changes. Does the value of a for loop?)

Stand still in information stagnation so the social political system can figure out to adapt to maintain control.

This isn’t novel thinking and it’s not even radical, it’s pretty well trodden philosophy backed by modern biology research. So downvote all ya want HN. Disinterest in one posters rhetoric does not delete facts of reality

The problem is we’ve exploited our ability to tailor our messaging so specifically that people aren’t getting new information.

We’ve seen this before, in a way: when Christianity ruled, no new emotional information or perspective was capable of taking hold.

Our media apparatus is essentially doing the same thing by feeding people the same narrative they grew up on their entire lives.

We have kept thousands of hours of TV shows, video games, and movies, news clips, etc and repeatedly view it. One can mentally exist in 1995 with the Internet and the new couch that feels just as comfy. Our limbic system suggests it anyway.

Look at our politics mired in clinging to the past, sticking to same old tax & drug policies.

The problem is a bunch of nerds who meant well built the panopticon, because they were staring at screens and not considering human history of authoritarian corruption of our emotionally guided agency (humans brains don’t find facts, they engage motor controls and coordinate agency, speaking sounds or doing a mechanical motion of some sort) to focus on the speech we don’t control. Previously religious doctrine, now finance.

Now media corp can beam the exact speech necessary to keep every individual soothed just so. How brilliant.

You’re curious about them from the perspective of a normal citizen

Politicians don’t know and have no desire to know, if you can’t tell by their willfully ignoring official political processes (regardless of whether one agrees with the motivation or not, to simply say you’re going to ignore it as folks like Sen. Graham have is nuts).

If they did they could be held accountable. Plausible deniability is a key legal position.

So politically zero fucks are given.

I mean we know more than one President was pals with a man the elite knew to be a statutory rapist. They don’t give a shit about human lives themselves.

You think they give a shit about ephemeral shit like money when they don’t worry about that?

The financial system has us mining bitcoin: ephemeral bullshit other people live big on.

How this forum can be so smart and so clueless is beyond me.