Pope Francis: Social media is turning young into 'social hermits' and creating 'spirals of hatred'
I dislike religion but he is right
humans are meant to be social creatures and when we cut out the socializing part we become mere animals.
>Giving a shit about the pope
Lmao. The Dalai lama is more respectable.
Everyone should know this by now, but I guess it's good that he's saying it.
I don't like him generally but he is definitely correct on this.
I was thinking about this kind of thing a while back. You'd think with the introduction of the internet providing increased connectivity between people and ease of access of information that hosility between social and idealogical groups would generally diminish and there'd be increased cohesion.
The existence of factually incorrect and 'toxic', hostile and divisive beliefs should have in theory diminished due to increased accessibility of information and the ability to debate with others, reason out beliefs and hear different viewpoints and relate to the experience of others.
Instead what has happened is people have formed insular communities around identities, belief systems and idealogies that act as echo chambers. In these echo chambers their beliefs, identities...etc are not challenged, other viewpoints are not entertained. It's all just reinforced by other like-minded people, resulting in increased hostility and division.
And so in other news, water is wet..
this nigga wants to flood europe with niggers, fuck him
>people like to talk to people like themselves
is the pope a genius? how did he unironically figure this out? maybe god is real after all.
truly based
well put user, well put, 100 internets for you
he channels the divine intellect of the lord my dude
>Finally get past the communication divide and figure out what people from different cultures races and ideologies think
>Hate each other more than ever before
Communication was never the problem I guess.
>francis
>pope
this probably got him in trouble with the jews
he's completely correct
400 years ago, every village had its idiot
now all the village idiots can gather online and wallow in conspiracies instead of being reality-checked on a daily basis
holy fucking shit the degeneracy of jesuits
you don't think it reinstating mob rule is a part of the problem too?
meant by whom exactly
the cosmic space dust that formed our being over millions of years
He believes some other crazy stuff too...
that's also an issue, but mob rule isn't what's inspiring terrorism
incel-ism and other "lonely young man" philosophies are what's making people kill
This. The pope wants to flood Europe with niggers while the Dalai Lama warns us not to
Yes, all those Jewish school shooters were from Jow Forums, that was the problem.
Same poster here. Another thing I will add is this seems to explain the surge in bizarre and demonstrably ridiculous belief systems like anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, strange dietary trends...etc.
You would not think in a million years that these kind of utterly ludicrous beliefs would not only survive but infact increase in popularity when we live in an age of such remarkable access to information which should kill their existence stone dead.
It's all very strange. So very counter-intuitive and unexpected. Ted Kaczynski was definitely correct when he said technology introduces problems which are entirely unpredictable.
>I dislike religion
you stupid fucker you literally just proved him right by shoving your beliefs into this for no reason
I quite like the archetype and the lethality, fatalism and futility associated with it. Hopefully things will change someday
wait you are trying to blame murder on the internet, my bad for replying to a retard i should've seen
Holy trips of the Father, Son and Holy Spirirt. Blessed and truthful post
"Conspiracy theorist" is a propaganda term. Some conspiracies are ridiculous urban legends; some are fact.
The USA was founded on a conspiracy.
but religion is actually complete and utter bullshit and everybody knows it
I simply used that term for the sake of simplicity and to encompass all conspiracy theories out there.
I'm not going to deny that there are legitimate conspriacies out there but lets be honest most of them are bogus. A lot of them are utterly insane, such as believing the earth is flat, the moon is a hologram, reptilians...etc...etc.
again missing the point dipshit. and you sound like a zoomer who can't think for himself.
>most
According to what list? If you compiled a list of known conspiracies I'd bet the vast majority are shit no one cares about where some dude and some other dude worked together to steal some money from where they worked.
but its mostly liberals who use social media a lot?
fuck this Nazi cunt
I'll tell you how something like anti-vaccine can at least be a bit plausible.
So... Do you know about anti-psychotic drugs? I hear there are anti-psychotics that, over an extended period, are like taking ice cream scoops out of your brain. They're very bad for you. But we deem that as a better outcome than a guy killing himself or others. Unpleasant but rational until we have a better treatment, right?
Well what doctors observed was that, when they tell new mums and dads to bring their babies back for vaccines, some people are just too fucking dumb to come back.
So they changed the vaccine schedules to give babies a lot more vaccines in single sittings. These vaccines do contain some bad stuff and that the schedule was changed shows you that doctors previously thought it might not be 100% safe to give them all the vaccines in one go, right?
But they deemed having everyone get the vaccines in one go was a better outcome than retards never getting the vaccines.
I put it to you that it's not implausible that maybe 1 in 10,000 babies could have negative consequences from the new vaccine schedule and that anti-vaccine people may have rightly observed this problem and gone too far with their solution.
I would further put it to you that the medical community would be very, very reluctant to admit anti-vaccine people had anything resembling a point because if they say "partial credit" then millions of retards would say "the anti-vaccine people were right!" and then not get vaccines at all.
Socialization is more animalistic. You could argue that lack of socializatio Is a sign of disease, but it does not make us less human.
He is rightly describing how anti-Trump hate works. My ma is amazingly gaslit and the only news she reads comes to her via Facebook.
You can't have an adult conversation with her about anything political.
Maher looks like an uglier Jeff Daniels.
>Thoughts?
should I read stranger in the woods?
I dunno, maybe. I doubt it gives you enough info to do what he did.
>but its mostly liberals who use social media a lot?
no i dont think thats the case
Shut the fuck up you molest kids
The problem is that we're both over and undersocialized. We are around too many strangers in our daily lives, seeing thousands of faces we haven't seen before but not interacting with them and not even looking at them for more than a fraction of a second. This isn't how humans were meant to live, we're supposed to live in communities where everyone knows each other, and when we see a stranger we're supposed to take a good look at them and try to gauge their intentions, since the only time we'd see one would be if they're a traveller from somewhere else.
At the same time we also don't have a real community where we fit in and have a well defined identity, so we go looking for it on the internet. Only it's never the same as living in a comfy village where everyone knows you as the butcher or the cobbler or whatever.
God here. Shoot him dead
>when we cut out the socializing part we become mere animals.
You know mindlessly following base primate instinct is more animalistic than to subvert it and forge your own path right?
>most of them
According to whom and from what list? I'm convinced that flat earth, holo moon and reptilians were invented and spread by the CIA to discredit legitimate concerns about shit like 9/11, mk ultra, mass surveillance, backdoors in computer programs, illegal gathering of personal data without a warrant, mass media shilling for political parties, politicians lobbying for corporate interests, etc. If anyone ever brings these up you can just deflect their whole argument with "that sounds crazy, you're just like those silly flat earthers" and suddenly no one will want to be associated with what they just said. Reinforce this by repeating it non stop in the media and people will start believing it, because people fundamentally form opinions based on association and peer pressure.
Pope Francais is abit of a cuck but he's right on the social media aspect.
I haven't even checked any social media for months now
He's a spic trying to use his position of power to enact white genocide. I already made arrangement's for him to get painfully tortured for all eternity.
>OP posts about the pope making a good point
>"KEK KEK KEK KEK KEK KEK KEK"
the fucking hegemony is real
>be religious
>tell someone they can't think for themselves
HMMMMMMMM...
I've heard that after JFK got shot there were lots of dudes asking questions about that and the CIA put forward the idea they'd use media to start making fun of "conspiracy theorists" so the public wouldn't entertain critiques of the warren commission.
Yeah it's almost like social media ruins relationships by making women think that internet attention is the same as real attention and turning every waking second of everyone's lives into a rat race to be better than everyone else. It's the same shit porn did to men and sex.