If your understanding of Christianity is based upon how well mainstream Christianity understands it, then you don't actually understand it, only the warped form that it takes after thousands of years of infighting and political manoeuvring. For example, did you know that at one point it was actually taboo to depict Christ (or Mary) as a human?
The decisions being made regarding how to deploy and operate the Internet appear, to me, to betray a fundamental lack of understanding regarding just how incredibly complex the information environment within a healthy society actually is, and how much people depend upon it to maintain the basic functions of human life.
It feels to me as though early man discovered fire and immediately decided to burn down every single forest they encountered so dangerous beasts wouldn't have anywhere to hide.
Mass immigration is literally insane, and betrays a fundamental lack of understanding about what societies actually require in order to function. I'm strongly suspicious these policies are being pushed by technocrats who want computers to take over managing social interactions, and so they need to ruin the natural state of real world public spaces so people have nowhere else to go.
Or did we assume someone in tech in early 2000s must be actually smart and not a bad person
My god, people here are STILL struggling with the idea that their perspective isn't absolute, and that they actually need to investigate the world to truly know things about it, instead of just relying upon the social media hive mind to tell them truth from fiction.
Trying to push the entire world's population into the same spaces. Sometimes, it actually does make sense to have spaces specifically for those with common experiences, like men's and women's spaces, or nationally segregated political spaces.
Social media NEEDING new content by the minute simply in order to survive.
The only people you actually end up reaching are people with good intentions who don't need to hear it in the first place. "Stop taking advantage of people" is a message which can usually be dispensed only by force. The moral panic over "toxic masculinity" did very little to affect those who actually caused problems, but a great deal to disenfranchise those who would actually make bad actors stop taking advantage of others.
They destroyed far more than just America, everyone's just too myopically focused on America's problems to notice what they've done to themselves by attempting to copy the digitization of society.
That's exactly my point. If you come into a conversation and start declaring the definitions have to be different from how the speaker uses their own words, because people they've never even met said so, that's not a good faith effort.
