This is why I didn't say all people who are anonymous. Your comments are always of someone who would be the same in person. And having met you in person, I think it is because you are of a generation which didn't grow up with detached indifferent way of communicating with others as a primary.
I think what social media, virtual, and anonymous communication does although it is not restricted to anonymous, the first condition seem sufficient of being in a non physical setting, takes away all the usual social restrictions we put on ourselves - at least those who want to live in a civilised society and we not act like an utter buffoon - and we voice our opinions without fear of any consequences. It doesn't have to necessarily be a threat of physical consequence, but of reputation and social ostracization as well.
People vent their frustrations without consideration of the other. Because they think it is just one avatar talking to another online. It is not real. But in reality it is real people sitting behind that façade, venting real emotions and feelings and burdening other real recipients with their madness. We seem to have leapt into this form of human communications, pushed and enabled by those who are already socially inept and do not understand humanity, and so have managed to create an anti-human world. It doesn't surprise me that with this attitude we are pushing each other towards inhumane acts, detachment from real community and family, diving towards transhumanism, and willing ourselves to be substituted by artificial intelligence and reality.
Add that all with incompetent leaders, politicians, and overall governance, and the task of the sane is made even more difficult. This to me is not progress but regressive destruction.
Hard for me to even begin to understand any of this.
It is very alien and unreal.
What an awful situation for real people in the real world to cope with.
Many years ago I remarked to my wife that when people sit at computers for work and then sit at the same computer for communication and also for their leisure, what would be the mantal effects ? What sick creatures humans would become.
And it is coming to pass.
Small wonder that practical and tangible answers are beyond them.
I vote for remote punching devices to be mandatory for online interactions
Honestly, that could help.
I would be quite happy to identify myself and show my face and stand for and take responsibility for the opinions I hold.
IF and I repeat IF I lived in a country with freedom of speech.
We in Britain know we do not have this right anymore - and while I do not fear for myself I will not risk the wellbeing of my wife and children.
I am not prepared to go to prison and leave my loved ones vulnerable.
So I am a coward in this respect.
I will however stand on the street and fight if it comes to it. I join protests and have run the risk of arrest .
I do not comment on social media at all.
I do not therefore enter into name calling and stupid remarks.
I comment only behind a pay wall or on specific sites where I feel I can contribute.
As regards religion I have in the last year returned to my church after an absence of thirty years.
And I pray for my family, my nation and my country.
It seems that either divine help or massive bloodshed are the only ways we are going to extricate the West from inevitable destruction.
This is why I didn't say all people who are anonymous. Your comments are always of someone who would be the same in person. And having met you in person, I think it is because you are of a generation which didn't grow up with detached indifferent way of communicating with others as a primary.
I think what social media, virtual, and anonymous communication does although it is not restricted to anonymous, the first condition seem sufficient of being in a non physical setting, takes away all the usual social restrictions we put on ourselves - at least those who want to live in a civilised society and we not act like an utter buffoon - and we voice our opinions without fear of any consequences. It doesn't have to necessarily be a threat of physical consequence, but of reputation and social ostracization as well.
People vent their frustrations without consideration of the other. Because they think it is just one avatar talking to another online. It is not real. But in reality it is real people sitting behind that façade, venting real emotions and feelings and burdening other real recipients with their madness. We seem to have leapt into this form of human communications, pushed and enabled by those who are already socially inept and do not understand humanity, and so have managed to create an anti-human world. It doesn't surprise me that with this attitude we are pushing each other towards inhumane acts, detachment from real community and family, diving towards transhumanism, and willing ourselves to be substituted by artificial intelligence and reality.
Add that all with incompetent leaders, politicians, and overall governance, and the task of the sane is made even more difficult. This to me is not progress but regressive destruction.
Hard for me to even begin to understand any of this.
It is very alien and unreal.
What an awful situation for real people in the real world to cope with.
Many years ago I remarked to my wife that when people sit at computers for work and then sit at the same computer for communication and also for their leisure, what would be the mantal effects ? What sick creatures humans would become.
And it is coming to pass.
Small wonder that practical and tangible answers are beyond them.