Posts by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AZluXSPpI6NKNCeuSu by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
2023-09-14T22:31:13Z
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@freemo @georgetakei The show has her name on it, so she's ultimately responsible.Besides, 'Cancel Culture' has been around for thousands of years (ostracism), and will quite likely be around for many more.
(DIR) Post #AZlyxr8iOEVyOoUyI4 by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
2023-09-14T23:20:50Z
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@freemo @georgetakei I don't think her decision was the right one. We are at a critical crossroad with regards to many things, and her actions are a potential dent in the armor.Also, I'm not confused about cancel culture.It's not that boycotting is central to the culture, it's that the internet makes protesting that much easier, and therefore people don't actually have to go out and do something.Therefore what we have is not a culture of cancelation. That's always been around.+
(DIR) Post #AZm1p8VmjOd1XAp5gO by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
2023-09-14T23:52:51Z
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@freemo @georgetakei I'm not because my point was that the central issue is not the cancelation mentality, it's the "I'm outraged now so lets do something now, preferably something that doesn't involve much effort".Actions have consequences, that's the basis for ostracism. So that basis will always be behind most responses to things like this.+
(DIR) Post #AZm2GHBQb9M0FPF66y by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
2023-09-14T23:53:46Z
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@freemo @georgetakei But the change we have now is not a shift in that mentality, its with the ease of access that we have to information and the ability to react to it almost instantly.We see a post that angers us and we can immediately reply to it, and repost it, express our anger, giving it greater visibility.But in that same way, we can see something online and immediately buy it.We've become a more visceral society, where we tend to act more impulsively than ever before.+
(DIR) Post #AZm2GIDEluOZRJ63ZQ by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
2023-09-14T23:55:18Z
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@freemo @georgetakei We are much more dependent on instant gratification, instant responses, sometimes even before we know all the facts.And that was my point. Society has always had ways to punish those it sees as transgressors, so what we're doing now isn't that different from what the Greeks started doing more than 2000 years ago.But this is part of a bigger issue, one that has ramifications in many aspects of our society.Simply put, this cancel culture is a symptom of a larger problem.
(DIR) Post #AZm2rOFvGXAAtg2g4m by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
2023-09-15T00:04:28Z
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@freemo @georgetakei Conceptually I agree, but who's the "we" in this example?We're constantly seeing examples of things that make no sense, like censoring things because someone gets offended by it.Like you said, it's easier and easier for things to get removed no matter how small the protest or inconsequential the subject.And as a result we have good cancelations and bad cancelations, depending on which side each one of us is... 😉
(DIR) Post #AZm3dxtk3H69L6pUfo by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
2023-09-15T00:13:14Z
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@freemo @georgetakei I think it was already here before, but it got a significant boom when smartphones became a thing & we got instant access to anything & everything.As for the rest...The world is becoming more extremist in its views. Ppl are being pushed further & further apart, to the point where we almost sound alien to one another.That happened slowly with major help from social media & the ease with which it groups us with similar thinking ppl while separating us from everyone else.
(DIR) Post #AZm42fTTggNRRIK9Qm by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
2023-09-15T00:17:43Z
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@freemo @georgetakeiIt was already here. I'm constantly reminded of that woman that made a stupid joke before boarding a 12 hour flight to find she'd been fired when she landed.What probably changed is what I mentioned in the other reply.We are so divided nowadays that this has almost become a type of warfare.I cancel the actor you like, you cancel the actor I like. I cancel the beer you love, I cancel the beer you love, and so on and so forth.
(DIR) Post #AZm5U3N338C3KDwGpc by Rui_ALF_Chaves@mastodon.social
2023-09-15T00:33:53Z
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@freemo @georgetakei Granted, but its not the only thing that's in overdrive and frivolous nowadays.Which is why I said that it wasn't the problem, it was one symptom of the problem.Hopefully if (normally I'd say when, but I'm not so sure that it'll happen) things calm down, we'll see a return to a "normal cancel culture" like it was in the days of yore. 😅