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What Happened to Civility ?
The Daily Dose of Reason ^ | July 3, 2018 | Dr. Michael J Hurd

Posted on 07/03/2018 7:51:50 PM PDT by huckfillary

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To: Ransomed
Many social media platforms require that you express yourself as your real name and identity.

"Require" is a pretty loose term. I have numerous fake facebook profiles that I use just to monitor some things on that "platform."

Anyone who uses their real identity on social media and provides the information "required" on it is a fool IMO.

41 posted on 07/03/2018 9:03:04 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: alexander_busek

There might be something wrong with any medium that allows us to perceive beyond what we developed with. Maybe if we don’t have 100,000 years to ease into it like cave paintings it just isn’t going to be something our brains are going to handle.

Text messages are the worst for misinterpreting meaning and missing nuance. How long have we had the recordable written word? But somehow internet texting to another person becomes this hard thing to parse.

Freegards


42 posted on 07/03/2018 9:06:57 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: usconservative

Awww, now I’ve gone and hurt your feeling. What was I, raised by wolves?


43 posted on 07/03/2018 9:07:54 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: Ransomed

Most people of yesteryear still had what we called imagination, and could turn, or yield to spirits that turned, an innocent street scene into dirty things in their minds. That’s also possible on internet — one doesn’t have to peruse nudes to get that evil buzz.


44 posted on 07/03/2018 9:08:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Ransomed

The oft-sarcastic LOL and other expectations have polluted the text world as well. Yes, even FR has its cynically styled side.


45 posted on 07/03/2018 9:10:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: usconservative

FR , e-mail and texting is as far as I have went. I’m glad all this crap passed me by. By the time I could figure out how to do it I knew not to, luckily.

Freegards


46 posted on 07/03/2018 9:12:00 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: usconservative
"what happens when the politically correct idiots finally start clashing with the uncivil idiots?"

We're getting a little peek now. Auntie Maxine is mad at Chuck Schumer, and the establishment Democrats are unhappy with the defeat of Crowley. Maybe these are just blips.

47 posted on 07/03/2018 9:12:30 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: HiTech RedNeck
That’s kind of quibbly, if one has an answering machine or voicemail....

I'm talking about the telephone as it was for most of its existence (i.e., till the end of the 20th Century).

Regards,

48 posted on 07/03/2018 9:13:47 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Some people disregarded any idea that telephone = super urgent, and either ignored it or shut its bell off when they didn’t want to be bothered.

There was always “Call the police station and send a cop.”


49 posted on 07/03/2018 9:15:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Ransomed
There might be something wrong with any medium that allows us to perceive beyond what we developed with.No, the problem is quite the reverse! Such media (the telephone, instant messaging) actually restrict our perceptions.

Oh, sure: We're communicating with something maybe thousands of miles away (i.e., beyond our normal sensory range) - but we can't see their faces, interpret their gestures, fully grasp their situation (sitting on the can, standing at the kitchen sink, etc.).

All those visual clues provide loads of valuable info.

Regards,

50 posted on 07/03/2018 9:16:53 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The passive entertainment today is astounding. You don’t have to do anything but click a button anywhere anytime to see anything. Screens are looked at more than the faces of family and friends. It was bad with TV and home computers, now we just take it anywhere. If you don’t take a picture of some event and share it just didn’t happen I guess, ha.

Freegards


51 posted on 07/03/2018 9:19:17 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The ability to actively entertain ourselves without technology seems to be diminishing. It does seem to lead further into unwholesomeness generally, at least that I have observed.

Freegards


52 posted on 07/03/2018 9:26:18 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: alexander_busek

“No, the problem is quite the reverse! Such media (the telephone, instant messaging) actually restrict our perceptions.”

They do and they don’t. The scope of these interactions far exceed the capabilities we developed with. We couldn’t friend 20,000 people or whatever. But you are right that we don’t get all the sensory cues and it is a huge part of the problem. You can’t smell through texts or see someone’s eyes narrow or whatever.

Freegards


53 posted on 07/03/2018 9:33:41 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Enterprise

Lord knows I hope you’re right.


54 posted on 07/03/2018 9:45:32 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“the laughter of demons and democrats”

...but you’re repeating yourself. Something Mark Twain said, can’t remember the exact quote at the moment.


55 posted on 07/03/2018 10:07:28 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: al_c

“Social media. That’s what happened.”

Yes, I think that was a major influence in the downgrading and of reasoned, public discourse. It gave millions of people an opening to blurt emotional, juvenile crap at each other from a distance, and created voids in normal human interaction. It killed actual conversation. A room full of people will all be staring at thier phones. That’s a massive disconnect in what used to be community. Kids play video games. They’re not outside working through social issues in what used to be normal play or social activities. This has to be affecting human relations in a radical way.


56 posted on 07/03/2018 10:18:14 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: bluejean

Aw, and I do so love Mark Twain quotes.


57 posted on 07/03/2018 10:37:47 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: huckfillary

Barack Hussein Obama happened.


58 posted on 07/03/2018 10:53:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't pass up the opportunity to use the Second Amendment today! IT'S FREE!)
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To: huckfillary
Remember Obama's speech on civility at Tucson in 2011 after Gabby Giffords was shot? Even John McCain said it was a "terrific speech."

Where is Obama today? I guess that hindsight proves once again that Obama's civility speech was just another convenient crisis moment of opportunity for Obama to say things he doesn't truly mean.

If the civility Obama spoke of was really a deeply held belief, he'd be speaking against it just as much today as he did seven years ago.

-PJ

59 posted on 07/03/2018 10:55:46 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: huckfillary

All the world’s knowledge instantly available at our fingertips and ignorance flourishes.

Ignorance breeds Incivility.


60 posted on 07/03/2018 10:58:50 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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