∑ XahLee
of online political tweets, there are 2 types: real political issues, e.g. war/military, economics,
national/international policy, government stuff.
Then there's social stuff, like sex, local crime outrage, police, sjw stuff.
the national/international policy/economics/gov stuff is far more important than social stuff. Fewer people posts those. But also, nobody really understand them.
Unless you are a professor of a narrow field for 10 years. (net neutrality is a example)
∑ XahLee
the social stuff, e.g. men/women, porn, people clans, the things the sjw talks about, is almost trivial, but more relevant to each person. It causes more shouting, and also blindness, and cult formation.
(this would be like, programing language cult/war)
∑ XahLee
note that, of the people who tweet political stuff, are people who's life's good and comfy. When you are well fed and got nothing to do, activism is a good hobby.
∑ XahLee
the social order of human animals is fickle. It could become Lord Of The Flies overnight.
Cruelty, atrocity, killing, torture. All it takes is some disaster or something that disrupt police/communication/outsiders. This is best illustrated in zombie movies.
even without zombies or big natural disaster, it easily happens locally in small scale.
Evergreen State College incident is a good example.
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/evergreen_state_college_racism_controversy.html
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