Seems to me that a lot of the issues going on in 2020 are a direct result of the internet and not what's actually happening on the ground.
People are spending way too much time online, and it's warping their perception of reality.
Example 1, covid rejects- we all know covid is the issue of 2020. We keep hearing about the end times and how we need to quarantine indefinitely to "Stop the spread!" Meanwhile few on this board (or in real life for that matter) actually personally know anyone that has succumbed to covid. I'm sure there are some hospitals that have been pressured by this new virus, but with the virus' over 99% survival rate, it's safe to say people have taken this covid over reaction to new and unbelievable heights.
Example 2 Jim Crow redux rejects- with everyone being bored as fuck with nothing better to do than argue in the internet, it seems it's easy to get caught up in the new civil rights (lol) movement.
Over the last several months we have been force fed a handful videos of "police brutality." Although a few I personally find disturbing, most of them I see as clear cut cases of cops who can't fight trying to arrest people with entitled attitudes that don't know how to listen. None that I've seen have a racial element to them at all, with several of the police in question actually being minorities themselves.
Furthermore, when you actually google the numbers police slayings (justified or not), they are quite frankly, almost non existent compared to the population as a whole.
Basically getting hemmed up by the law is only probable if you are consistently pressing the boundaries of the law. And this is coming from a guy that has skirted the boundaries of the law his entire life.
And that's not to say I agree with most of the laws we have, but that's not what this thread is about.
This thread is also not about coming in here and arguing with me about the existence or the scope of the pandemic (lol) or the new civil rights movement (lol). If you want to argue that these two non issues (IMO) are actually the greatest issues facing our country then start your own thread and call me out there.
This thread is about seeing these sensational headlines and videos online, and then going out into the world and conducting yourself as if these issues are directly effecting your day to day program. How do we get people to separate their personal sphere from their online sphere?
Can it be done? Should it be done? Can we get your average dummy to understand that what's going on in his phone isn't necessarily what's going on outside his bedroom window?
People are spending way too much time online, and it's warping their perception of reality.
Example 1, covid rejects- we all know covid is the issue of 2020. We keep hearing about the end times and how we need to quarantine indefinitely to "Stop the spread!" Meanwhile few on this board (or in real life for that matter) actually personally know anyone that has succumbed to covid. I'm sure there are some hospitals that have been pressured by this new virus, but with the virus' over 99% survival rate, it's safe to say people have taken this covid over reaction to new and unbelievable heights.
Example 2 Jim Crow redux rejects- with everyone being bored as fuck with nothing better to do than argue in the internet, it seems it's easy to get caught up in the new civil rights (lol) movement.
Over the last several months we have been force fed a handful videos of "police brutality." Although a few I personally find disturbing, most of them I see as clear cut cases of cops who can't fight trying to arrest people with entitled attitudes that don't know how to listen. None that I've seen have a racial element to them at all, with several of the police in question actually being minorities themselves.
Furthermore, when you actually google the numbers police slayings (justified or not), they are quite frankly, almost non existent compared to the population as a whole.
Basically getting hemmed up by the law is only probable if you are consistently pressing the boundaries of the law. And this is coming from a guy that has skirted the boundaries of the law his entire life.
And that's not to say I agree with most of the laws we have, but that's not what this thread is about.
This thread is also not about coming in here and arguing with me about the existence or the scope of the pandemic (lol) or the new civil rights movement (lol). If you want to argue that these two non issues (IMO) are actually the greatest issues facing our country then start your own thread and call me out there.
This thread is about seeing these sensational headlines and videos online, and then going out into the world and conducting yourself as if these issues are directly effecting your day to day program. How do we get people to separate their personal sphere from their online sphere?
Can it be done? Should it be done? Can we get your average dummy to understand that what's going on in his phone isn't necessarily what's going on outside his bedroom window?
