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Let's Talk, Not Fight
9 years ago
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This journal is from the perspective of an American-Floridian-Orlando Citizen.
Alright so another ripe election has come to pass and while the outcome is not what I personally wanted (I really didn't want either since they've both got a shady history and are impossible to actually trust on anything they say), it is what I expected us to get given how the internet has been acting, and one can think of the internet as the "Sub-Conscious" of everyone. Trends on it tend to influence our lives, and as it gets more prominent it'll only get more-so.
So blame the internet right? Not necessarily, the internet is a tool, it can do three things, build something, destroy something, or inflict great pain when misused. We've done beautiful, inspirational things with the internet and horrible destructive things with it.
What makes so now different? Well the key to a healthy system of anything is communication. As an ex-mute I can attest to how painful it is to be unable to have your voice heard. The early internet was pretty great at this, with Forums, generally one could ask a question, or start a conversation without much trolling, and abuse, there'd be some occasionally but there was far less circlejerking -spirals of abuse to get likes and popularity among a group- and "us vs them" sentiments I feel.
It's probably one of the main reasons I left the LCF, I thought it was just there that people were scared to talk about issues. Maybe I'm an alien but as a TF artist I adored the idea of new perspectives, and talking to people to see how they feel about things. Now if I try it's often seen as starting trouble, or I get no response since people are either too scared to voice their opinion, or don't want to offend me and "destroy a friendship".
This kind of sentiment is exactly how someone like Trump can get elected, complete social clique isolation, and bubbles of like-minded people prepare their militias because everyone in the world is a werewolf out to devour their sheep. The paranoia eventually turns the village against each other, and only the snake-oil salesman preaching of werewolves comes out on top.
No one involved is really a nazi, or a monster, or an idiot, they're all just groups acting out of confusion and fear of what "They" will do to "Us". It's incredibly unhealthy and leaves us all monsters in the end.
The solution is simple, talk not fight. You can still be friends with someone you disagree with, Hell the odds that you're just like your friends is slim to none, so unless you want to bide time until a tiny disagreement tears everyone apart you better learn to compromise.
Since people tend to have trouble doing it though here are some simple Guidelines.
1. You are not the media you consume. If someone doesn't like your favorite movie, it's not a personal attack. Think of it like food, not everyone's going to like olives on their pizza pie. Does that make them bad people? No. So not liking Star Wars, or Undertale, or (Insert Anime here) doesn't make them a bad person either. It's just tastes it has nothing to do with intelligence.
2. Opinions do not make an argument invalid. It's another disturbing trend, just watch an episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, and just about any criticism will be passed off as "Well that's just his opinion, I think the foods great" This is an issue because a good discussion you listen to their opinion, consider the perspective and see if your reality is really that correct. You don't have to please everyone obviously, but you should consider every criticism, sometimes people might notice things you don't think of it as debugging you can't find every bug, but you can decide which bugs should be features.
3. Don't block people you disagree with, unless they're legitimately going out of your way to attack you. A good friend recently ran into someone who legitimately needed a block since all the person did was spam nazi propaganda to get a shocked response, THAT is trolling. If someone leaves a criticism, that probably isn't and sometimes the people sending bitter comments are just so starved for conversation any response will do. I've met some great people just trying to get a real conversation from furries looking to "RP".
To sum it all up guys, try to talk to people more, keeping it in is slowly killing everyone.
Alright so another ripe election has come to pass and while the outcome is not what I personally wanted (I really didn't want either since they've both got a shady history and are impossible to actually trust on anything they say), it is what I expected us to get given how the internet has been acting, and one can think of the internet as the "Sub-Conscious" of everyone. Trends on it tend to influence our lives, and as it gets more prominent it'll only get more-so.
So blame the internet right? Not necessarily, the internet is a tool, it can do three things, build something, destroy something, or inflict great pain when misused. We've done beautiful, inspirational things with the internet and horrible destructive things with it.
What makes so now different? Well the key to a healthy system of anything is communication. As an ex-mute I can attest to how painful it is to be unable to have your voice heard. The early internet was pretty great at this, with Forums, generally one could ask a question, or start a conversation without much trolling, and abuse, there'd be some occasionally but there was far less circlejerking -spirals of abuse to get likes and popularity among a group- and "us vs them" sentiments I feel.
It's probably one of the main reasons I left the LCF, I thought it was just there that people were scared to talk about issues. Maybe I'm an alien but as a TF artist I adored the idea of new perspectives, and talking to people to see how they feel about things. Now if I try it's often seen as starting trouble, or I get no response since people are either too scared to voice their opinion, or don't want to offend me and "destroy a friendship".
This kind of sentiment is exactly how someone like Trump can get elected, complete social clique isolation, and bubbles of like-minded people prepare their militias because everyone in the world is a werewolf out to devour their sheep. The paranoia eventually turns the village against each other, and only the snake-oil salesman preaching of werewolves comes out on top.
No one involved is really a nazi, or a monster, or an idiot, they're all just groups acting out of confusion and fear of what "They" will do to "Us". It's incredibly unhealthy and leaves us all monsters in the end.
The solution is simple, talk not fight. You can still be friends with someone you disagree with, Hell the odds that you're just like your friends is slim to none, so unless you want to bide time until a tiny disagreement tears everyone apart you better learn to compromise.
Since people tend to have trouble doing it though here are some simple Guidelines.
1. You are not the media you consume. If someone doesn't like your favorite movie, it's not a personal attack. Think of it like food, not everyone's going to like olives on their pizza pie. Does that make them bad people? No. So not liking Star Wars, or Undertale, or (Insert Anime here) doesn't make them a bad person either. It's just tastes it has nothing to do with intelligence.
2. Opinions do not make an argument invalid. It's another disturbing trend, just watch an episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, and just about any criticism will be passed off as "Well that's just his opinion, I think the foods great" This is an issue because a good discussion you listen to their opinion, consider the perspective and see if your reality is really that correct. You don't have to please everyone obviously, but you should consider every criticism, sometimes people might notice things you don't think of it as debugging you can't find every bug, but you can decide which bugs should be features.
3. Don't block people you disagree with, unless they're legitimately going out of your way to attack you. A good friend recently ran into someone who legitimately needed a block since all the person did was spam nazi propaganda to get a shocked response, THAT is trolling. If someone leaves a criticism, that probably isn't and sometimes the people sending bitter comments are just so starved for conversation any response will do. I've met some great people just trying to get a real conversation from furries looking to "RP".
To sum it all up guys, try to talk to people more, keeping it in is slowly killing everyone.
NogardDragon
~nogarddragon
i agree a divided people will make our great nation fall. talking is better than fighting
Lucern7
~lucern7
OP
It's sad that social medias gotten so antisocial.
NogardDragon
~nogarddragon
yah :C
