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I am absolutely sick to death of outrage culture, and I thoroughly agree - in fact I think the outrage probably encourages the bravado of people who are engaging in risky behaviour atm

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Crisis fatigue. The boy who cried wolf syndrome. I think it plays a part, I would love to know for sure. Such things are often impossible to know, but it's not impossible to realize that there are things that are unknown. Although, it seems like this is quite difficult for most people...uncertainty seems to make the human mind behave erratically.

Regardless, if true, we made our bed, now we get to sleep in it. As you sow, so shall you reap.

A great way to get rid of outrage culture, btw, would be to get rid of all the systems generating the outrage.

That assumes outrage is motivated primarily by flawed systems and not the psychological and social benefits that accrue to those who express the most outrage. It may also be true that outrage is not the best way to solve systemic problems.

I think in some cases though there are systems that funnel people into places that seem designed to evoke engagement and often the engagement triggers outrage.

I wish Jack Dorsey at Twitter would take a look at the absolute shit-show that is "Trends for You" in the Explore section. It's nothing but the most outraged people trying to whip everyone into a frenzy. I try to resist going in there, but every once in a while can't help but be sucked in and almost always regret it.

> take a look at the absolute shit-show that is "Trends for You" in the Explore section.

I finally figured out a good solution for that. Click the gear and turn off personalized trends. Then set the country to a language you don't speak.

I don't know a lick of Latvian, but now Twitter is all about telling me what's going on over there.

I'm not sure you actually understand how legitimately scared we all are.

So "burn down the Internet, all the way back to the BBS days, and burn those down too."

Seems like overkill.

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