You’re cancelled.
And so am I.
“The bitter truth we may need to swallow is this: thanks to our internet-interconnectedness, we are all already cancelled, whether on the left, right, or in the middle, we just have not been pointed out to the swarm yet.” — Peter Limberg
In the modern world, there is an ever-increasing cohort of people who will take offence.
The guard rails of what is deemed acceptable speech have been brought in.
Outlandish terms are used to describe mediocre transgressions.
This is called Concept Creep.
As a social issue such as racism or sexual harassment becomes rarer, people react by expanding their definition of it, creating the illusion that the issue is actually getting worse.
The problem is that the volume of potentially offensive messages you’re exposed to, and the volume of people who will potentially take offence at anything you say, have both rapidly increased.
“The combination of the digital age constantly exposing us to new outrages and cultural elites constantly creating new outrages out of nothing has skyrocketed the number of outrages we now face.
In a world prickling with provocations, we cannot let our sensitivities roam free.
If we allow ourselves to be goaded by every visible indignation, we’ll be endlessly distracted from our goals, and easily controlled by emotional manipulators like trolls, disinformation agents, and demagogues.
I block the easily outraged because they’re the foot-soldiers of the mob, who in the old days would’ve lynched people over neighbourhood rumours.
Those without self-control are soon controlled by others; they’re the useful idiots of ideologues, the tools of tyranny.” — @G_S_Bhogal
Million-to-one odds happen 8 times a day in New York City.
The Law Of Very Large Numbers says that if you create a big enough audience, very unlikely outlier-events begin to happen regularly.
Maybe no normal, sane person would take offence at your perspective on tipping serving staff or that joke you just made about the French.
But when the entire internet can see what you just posted, the Law Of Very Large Numbers kicks in and will find a bunch of people who deem your stance reprehensible.
If you need any more proof, just look at any comment section of an episode I post about the dating market.
I’ll be accused of being a bigoted misogynist AND a blue pilled cuck from people on both sides of the aisle, who are literally watching the same video and drawing totally opposite conclusions.
You cannot please everyone, regardless of what you say.
So just say what you want, whatever you believe is true, and then put your phone away and go touch some grass.
And so am I.
“The bitter truth we may need to swallow is this: thanks to our internet-interconnectedness, we are all already cancelled, whether on the left, right, or in the middle, we just have not been pointed out to the swarm yet.” — Peter Limberg
In the modern world, there is an ever-increasing cohort of people who will take offence.
The guard rails of what is deemed acceptable speech have been brought in.
Outlandish terms are used to describe mediocre transgressions.
This is called Concept Creep.
As a social issue such as racism or sexual harassment becomes rarer, people react by expanding their definition of it, creating the illusion that the issue is actually getting worse.
The problem is that the volume of potentially offensive messages you’re exposed to, and the volume of people who will potentially take offence at anything you say, have both rapidly increased.
“The combination of the digital age constantly exposing us to new outrages and cultural elites constantly creating new outrages out of nothing has skyrocketed the number of outrages we now face.
In a world prickling with provocations, we cannot let our sensitivities roam free.
If we allow ourselves to be goaded by every visible indignation, we’ll be endlessly distracted from our goals, and easily controlled by emotional manipulators like trolls, disinformation agents, and demagogues.
I block the easily outraged because they’re the foot-soldiers of the mob, who in the old days would’ve lynched people over neighbourhood rumours.
Those without self-control are soon controlled by others; they’re the useful idiots of ideologues, the tools of tyranny.” — @G_S_Bhogal
Million-to-one odds happen 8 times a day in New York City.
The Law Of Very Large Numbers says that if you create a big enough audience, very unlikely outlier-events begin to happen regularly.
Maybe no normal, sane person would take offence at your perspective on tipping serving staff or that joke you just made about the French.
But when the entire internet can see what you just posted, the Law Of Very Large Numbers kicks in and will find a bunch of people who deem your stance reprehensible.
If you need any more proof, just look at any comment section of an episode I post about the dating market.
I’ll be accused of being a bigoted misogynist AND a blue pilled cuck from people on both sides of the aisle, who are literally watching the same video and drawing totally opposite conclusions.
You cannot please everyone, regardless of what you say.
So just say what you want, whatever you believe is true, and then put your phone away and go touch some grass.
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