Discussing people that you never met. Phenomena that you never observed. Stuff that you never saw, personally, with your own eyes.

Discussion without empiricism. Without grounding.

  • guylacaptivite@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    What do you think then?

    Or did you really only want someone to answer you “It’s hell” and confirm your bias? You really read like an angsty teenager who just had it’s first joint and 101 philosophy class.

    Edit: Are you suggesting people shouldn’t have the right to debate with one another? Or that some should get it but not the others?

    edit:edit: Why are YOU doing it?

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      10 months ago

      No man. I wanted something better than conventional, popular, obvious and literal.

      And now I’m being insulting. Sorry.

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        10 months ago

        Give me an example of a better answer to whatever you wrote here. And I wasn’t trying to be insulting I’m sorry. It’s just very hard to understand what you are questionning beyond “society bad! Yes/No?”

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          10 months ago

          Re this giant conversation… this collective linguistic technology-augmented hallucination…

          It’s good because it ignores space. You can talk to anybody all over the world instantaneously.

          It’s bad because it is dominated by the loudest

          It’s good because we can render our ideas in a broad menu of options. Text, sound, video

          It’s bad because it does not differentiate between levels of abstraction. First-hand accounts carry the same weight as fifth-hand acccounts.

          It’s good because it’s convenient. Smartphones.

          It’s bad because it exists entirely apart from the world. Asserting a world-ness of its own. And that’s a seductive argument.

          It’s good and bad because it supplies infinite entertainment.

          It is strong and weak the way all language is strong and weak.

          That’s all that one person could come up with in 5 minutes. Theoretically the combined intellect of the internet’s billions might come up with a couple more.

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            10 months ago

            Yet you asked “what is this”. Lol, you’re tripping balls mate. Plus who are you to decide what’s good, bad, strong or weak. Especially with some bullshit like “it’s apart from the world” (it’s not, it’s definitely part of it you aren’t transcending dimensions here). Anyway get some sleep.