The Dumpster Fire of Humanity

[Jolly]

At times, Twitter.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/04/twitter-trolls-mock-desantis-wife-casey-over-breast-cancer-diagnosis/

[George K]

Not surprising. However, twitter randos gotta tweet, thinking that their opinion matters.

What gets me is when twitter non-randos, politicians and "journalists" do it. Supposedly they're our betters (see "New Civility" thread), or at least that's what they tell us.

[Mik]

At times I wonder if China doesn't have it right with social profile scoring.

[Doctor Phibes]

Twitter is pretty much tailor made to appeal to narcissists and trolls. It shouldn't be any surprise when so many of the people who use it are narcissists and trolls.

[Catseye3]

@george-k said in The Dumpster Fire of Humanity:

Supposedly they're our betters (see "New Civility" thread), or at least that's what they tell us.

But we're old enough to know better, right?

Right?

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in The Dumpster Fire of Humanity:

Twitter is pretty much tailor made to appeal to narcissists and trolls. It shouldn't be any surprise when so many of the people who use it are narcissists and trolls.

I think the demand for narcissists and trolls might exceed the supply, if Twitter requires one or both. Maybe Twitter users are de facto normal people.

[Doctor Phibes]

@horace said in The Dumpster Fire of Humanity:

Maybe Twitter users are de facto normal people.

I don't see the value of it, to be honest. I've looked at some feeds, and it appears to be mostly people re-tweeting something somebody else said about something I don't care about. If anybody says anything remotely controversial, there are generally howls of outrage from a bunch of knobheads of one form or another.

What's the point of it?

[Catseye3]

@doctor-phibes said in The Dumpster Fire of Humanity:

If anybody says anything remotely controversial, there are generally howls of outrage from a bunch of knobheads of one form or another.
What's the point of it?

[Nodding.] There's a Mah-Jong game I play online . . . it's a time passer. I'm happier fiddling around on that and thinking my own thoughts than I am trapping myself in the horror hell of social media.

That to me may represent the biggest disadvantage of the Internet: The grasping toward, the pursuit of, ever more stuff to know -- a greed that, like the appetite for cocaine, grows and grows and is never satisfied. A greed that is deleterious for the human mind and soul and ultimately, body; a greed humans were never meant for.