(January 7, 2024 at 3:52 pm)SimpleCaveman Wrote: Not sure what you’re saying. Yes, he is making a judgment, still not dictating. I’m not going down that road in the discussion, though. Didn’t want to in the beginning.
But you bring up another problem with the internet that can only be overcome by moderation and self-discipline. We base our judgment on snippets, headlines, reels, and such. There is a lack of depth in our understanding of situations and events. When we’re talking about real problems – such as war, politics, immigration, poverty – that ignorance only makes it worse. It makes us worse. It increases the meanness, hate, stupidity. Yes, that too has been going on for thousands of years, but, too, the internet has made that easier and harder to overcome.
Frankly, many people don’t want to understand better, especially if it goes against the reality they’ve contrived. And we’re back to the original quote. This is possible because on the web “there is no givenness to reality, there is simply individual will.”
What do others think?
I'm saying it's more than 'description', said nothing about dictating.
People have the reality they want to have, contrived or not.
There are plenty of things with 'no givenness to reality' (i.e. god, mental concepts, art, unless I'm misunderstanding what 'givenness' entails) and the internet is full of things based on/in reality. Additionally I don't think the internet is made up completely of 'individual will'. Sounds to me like a position that would be hard to defend.
Your second paragraph sounds a lot like preaching and that you think you hold a higher moral ground. I'm out.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
