The Degradation of Human Contact

Was a time, when people met in public places to discuss both important and trivial issues and civility ruled. Surely exceptions existed and still do. Like pubs, where alcohol removes inhibitions, and discourse on occasion, spirals into physical confrontation. But those are exceptions.

Enter, if you dare, the new world of internet communication, where civility succumbs to vulgarity, intentional combativeness and even cruelty, and perhaps, the true sense of human possibilities is exposed.

I loathe sharing the planet with the types wielding this tripe disguised as conversation and cannot fathom what their lives lack to bring about this display.

This is less about the children allowed here then it is about those who should know better, but the children have learned it somewhere.

Better to self-isolate from this degrading cesspool of illiteracy and hatefulness than to continue and suffer the effects.

The anonymity here does not remove the mirrors from your life. When you look into one what do you see?

Whar

Is this techno-nihilism?

Agree fully. Why don't you follow your own advice and interact with the real world instead of going online and making a thread about it?

Or is it just observational realism.

How does your point apply to interacting with those people who are in places difficult to travel to often? For example, friends and relatives who live in other countries?

I cannot allow someone so socially undeveloped, who blocked me for supporting the site's rules against religious discussion, then lied about my motives in another thread, to further pollute my entries in these forums. This is the third thread you have followed me on to troll.

You are blocked.

I did not suggest this or any other chat site is 100% currupted nor without redeeming qualities.

What I suggest is that the problem is corrosive and pervasive and demonstrates how quickly humans revert to their basest instincts.

It’s an interesting post, which highlights the dangers of the internet, with factors like privacy, anonymous accounts, and addiction to the site. I’m sure it would help all of us out if we left or spent significantly less time here.

I think I misunderstood your post

Indeed.

Okay. Sorry if I was not clear.

I just skimmed through so I understand now.

Speed reading takes practice and is not always a good idea.

it’s far more effective to talk to the people most at risk instead of organising an open air event at Wembley stadium with random audience.

Most at risk are right here among us.

I would say they are mostly young and impressionable and inclined to think going along with the crowd is acceptable, but there are plenty who fit that description and are older and should know better but do not.

My unsolicited advice would be to read my topic titled "How to think not what to think" and learn to self-evaluate.

So it's techno-realism?

I think you're stuck looking for a reason to use the word "techno".

In the past there were newspapers with letters to the editor and community comments sections that demonstrated the same thing about people when anonymous. But they were a small sampling.

It has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with being cloaked in fake identities.

Here's an example from personal experience.

A few years ago I witnessed someone exposing details of their life here including, location, family, military, education and career history. Pretty much everything but their actual name and address.

It was a naive mistake. Literally every detail, at one time or another, was used as a weapon against them. Some slight and attempting to be humorous and failing, some openly hostile and vile.

Could this ever have happened outside of the anonymity of internet relations with people?

Not without repercussion which does not exist here.