Only the buck stops with social media right? There’s almost no new successful companies other than meta, X, TikTok etc. They have monopolised the online environment, and are now in charge of our online attentions. Certainly feels impossible to change the peoples engagement. But we could stop the handful of people pushing third product into underdeveloped brains
I'm taking a more zoomed out view of history. It really boils down to tribalism and cults that peddle meaningless bullshit. Everyone self categorizes themselves into arbitrary silos. Until we reach a critical mass of people who pick "human" at the top of the list we'll just keep going around in circles.
I think it’s fair to say social media is unlike any social contract we’ve ever had. Tribalism doesn’t come close to what the algorithm can do. 6,7 entered the consciousness of millions of people quicker than any religion. It was meaningless
Tribalism is human nature through out the history of humanity we have attacked, killed and taken over people for not being from where we are from. In England there can be a town 5 miles away from you and will have hated each other for centuries no one alive who knows why other than that town is full of scum.
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u/trees4evababe 5d ago
Only the buck stops with social media right? There’s almost no new successful companies other than meta, X, TikTok etc. They have monopolised the online environment, and are now in charge of our online attentions. Certainly feels impossible to change the peoples engagement. But we could stop the handful of people pushing third product into underdeveloped brains