What will it take for society to adopt a carefully reasoned approach to information processing and eschew the modern trend toward a hasty emotional approach? Is it good for society in general that our current trend is to be the first to signal our virtue and let everyone know how we feel even before the facts are known? Do anyone's feelings really matter that much? Do feelings control reality? I don't think so. I think that in our emotional frenzy to consume and disseminate information we leap to biased conclusions that obscure the true facts and nature of the reality we seek to understand. If you weren't aware, America is a racist rape culture that steals from the poor and gives to the rich. It must be true because the new Iphone 8 will have a button dedicated to expressing displeasure over the injustice of it all. You can use it to post to threads like this one where some guy says Hello to a young black woman. He clearly wants to rape her. Or you can signal which team you're on in an argument about a guy with the wrong hairstyle. How dare he have hair? That's racism, or reverse racism, or micro reverse racist aggression depending on what you believed before you met the guy with the wrong hair. When you see a handful of police interactions out of the tens of millions of of interactions that take place on a yearly basis and you can come to the conclusion that the entire system is broken. All joking aside, such conclusions are simply not rational. And it appears that it has become impossible for more considered voices to make public sense of the event before the public is in the throes of the shiniest and newest outrage. We are all part of an incredibly advanced society that spends its free time trying to impress upon each other exactly how terrible everything actually is. These self declared victims of America's opulence are getting angrier and angrier. Their self righteous rage is driving them to violent acts. I think the majority is disgusted with itself because it is awash in disinformation of its own construction. Some of it is intentional, some delusional, and some is simply misguided. What's it going to take for a more deliberate method of communication to take hold? What's it going to take for the actual conclusion of an event to replace the instant conclusion that was forged in the fires of political spin? When are we going to burn the "fake but accurate" manual of millennial social justice and return to the societal tenets of the age of enlightenment? That's a revolution I'd be glad to support.
