Erm have you heard of TikTok or seen what goes on there? Loads of people posting about radical politics. It’s not just text mediums. Radical opinions aren’t new, terrorism and Nazis didn’t start with the internet.
Also a strange example to choose. Cops in America are pretty bad. Police in general support the interests of capital just as much as they help ordinary people. I don’t know if it’s possible to build a society without some form of policing, but the system we have now isn’t great.
Yes, of course there are people posting videos, but the vast majority of communication on the internet is via text by a long shot.
My point isn’t that someone is right or wrong in what they infer from or relate to in the writing, but my point is that the prevalence of unreviewed and unedited text in everyday life nowadays thanks to the internet has further increased the average size of the gap between an author’s intent and the meaning that a reader infers from it.
What I’m trying to say is that the wider the gap between intended meaning and inferred meaning gets, the more toxic the relationship between any given person and the public at large gets in general. Text-based communication makes it easy for that gap to be wide. Unreviewed text-based communication just widens that gap. Reading a lot of un-reviewed text based communication from other people makes that gap even wider. That’s what I mean by corrosive.
Erm have you heard of TikTok or seen what goes on there? Loads of people posting about radical politics. It’s not just text mediums. Radical opinions aren’t new, terrorism and Nazis didn’t start with the internet.
Also a strange example to choose. Cops in America are pretty bad. Police in general support the interests of capital just as much as they help ordinary people. I don’t know if it’s possible to build a society without some form of policing, but the system we have now isn’t great.
Yes, of course there are people posting videos, but the vast majority of communication on the internet is via text by a long shot. My point isn’t that someone is right or wrong in what they infer from or relate to in the writing, but my point is that the prevalence of unreviewed and unedited text in everyday life nowadays thanks to the internet has further increased the average size of the gap between an author’s intent and the meaning that a reader infers from it. What I’m trying to say is that the wider the gap between intended meaning and inferred meaning gets, the more toxic the relationship between any given person and the public at large gets in general. Text-based communication makes it easy for that gap to be wide. Unreviewed text-based communication just widens that gap. Reading a lot of un-reviewed text based communication from other people makes that gap even wider. That’s what I mean by corrosive.
Not really as you can actually post follow up questions on the internet.