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I think it is normal and good for young adults to be thinking a lot about what is ideal, to be finding and pointing out faults of existing systems, and to use their energy to remind others of those faults.
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I think people graduate from that in different ways: some people get co-opted - success in the current system will lead some to justify that system; some people just get tired and busy and are just working to keep themselves afloat;
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some find ways to make a living while working on making change where they can, whether activism, non-profit beneficial work, politics, community organizing, etc. some have other careers but do what they can in their spare or with their spare money. 3/
But I think itâs important to get to a point where you understand that having ideals and finding fault is not enough. Where you think clearly about *why* things are as they are and what, in practical terms, can make things better.
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I think social media harms this in a few ways:
1. People get rewarded for pointing out faults, or for describing ideals, more than they do for talking about practical ways to address faults within the parameters of current political reality.
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1. People get rewarded for pointing out faults, or for describing ideals, more than they do for talking about practical ways to address faults within the parameters of current political reality.
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2. Among particularly the young, there can be an edginess competition that encourages an extreme mix of cynicism and idealism: âThis extremity is what it *should* be like and the 99.9% of people who donât agree are worthy of executionâ. 6/
A cool kid will respond âyou simp, this even further extremity is what it *should* be likeâ. And off they spin. So when they should be transitioning to âOK, Iâve identified problems, what are solutions?â They are just being pushed into less and less viable propositions.
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Before social media, political journalists and college kids were not sharing the same discourse space. The journalists would report on the activism, as they should, and as a movement grew, it would get increasing bandwidth and public distribution 8/
Before social media, political journalists and college kids were not sharing the same discourse space. The journalists would report on the activism, as they should, and as a movement grew, it would get increasing bandwidth and public distribution 8/
But â$2000 or the guillotineâ is basically college dorm talk that is now directly in the same space as political journalism.
So â$2000 or the guillotineâ spreads way beyond its public value and becomes a public detriment.
IMO.
So â$2000 or the guillotineâ spreads way beyond its public value and becomes a public detriment.
IMO.
Example case for tweet 7 above https://mobile.twitter.com/Comrade_Waluigi/status/1357902746863730689
