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Phobos Anomaly posted:Recently I made a (particular) forum post (not on this forum). Someone responded to this post disagreeing with me. My initial reaction was of self-righteous indignation. I'm always right how dare someone disagree with me. The fact I even managed to make my post makes me superior to all other humans. what's driving the online anger cycle is not facebook or forums. those are just like microscopes or particle accelerators or whatever that lets us see the phenomenon better. you lash out angrily because you are angry. like, as a baseline. and you are angry because the world is hosed. and it is that way because of Capital, but it's very difficult to stay mad at Capital. it requires sustained effort, because we have all learned to perceive the world as individuals and the relations between them, instead of in terms of the material conditions that produce those individuals and relations to begin with. so we have to think hard to stay mad at Capital. and so, when we feel angry, we instead engage in angry behavior toward what we easily perceive: individuals. it happens irl, around dinner tables and at the office, just as much as on facebook. because it's the world. or material conditions, or whatever. and each time we learn nothing, because we are lying to ourselves about why we're mad or what to do with it. social media is not the problem. anger is not the problem. we're supposed to get mad when material conditions decline! we're supposed to get mad when the world is dying. the problem is being drawn into a recursive loop of getting mad about getting mad, or being mad for its own sake. that's when reflexively analyzing the world in terms of proximate individual causes instead of the ultimate systemic causes further adds to that baseline anger and confusion, and thus not only fails to do anything helpful, but also sets up the next instance. basically it's a form of bikeshedding op
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