Sunday, April 17, 2016

"Anger is to the internet what fear was to television."

AK:
it’s been obvious for a long time that anger’s a state that the internet wants you to be in so it can manipulate you to do what it wants.

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this wasn’t the internet we all imagined back at the beginning. We were all supposed to have this amazing range of opinions, and it’d be a flourishing of individuality. And what has it become? “Oh no some director has tweeted something out of line with our social norms.”

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Like, if you read about movie folks, great comedy writers, the folks what draw comics– that’s the fun part, hearing little stories how they’re not like regular folks.