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talkpoliticsWhy Internet Commenters Will Eventually End The World
This is at the end of the link. Read the rest if you want, but it's not relevant to the question. (This is the opposite of what I normally post, btw.)
The question is what do you think of this assertion? Does it seem reasonable to you or not? For discussions sake, ignore the question of whether the president will be someone from a rich family who never used a computer or something like that. I'm really only interested in the final claim as it relates to people in general.
I think it's obviously true, but I wanted to check and see whether others had a different opinion.
It means that the future leaders of your country ... are gonna be people that have absolutely no experience with actual confrontation. Thirty years from now the President of the most powerful country in the world is going to be some little shit who sat at his computer and hurled insults three feet away from his mommy's tit like it was no big deal. I don't condone fighting, but when a human being understands that his or her actions might result in a giant fist up his or her ass, he or she learns a thing or two about acting before they speak.
This is at the end of the link. Read the rest if you want, but it's not relevant to the question. (This is the opposite of what I normally post, btw.)
The question is what do you think of this assertion? Does it seem reasonable to you or not? For discussions sake, ignore the question of whether the president will be someone from a rich family who never used a computer or something like that. I'm really only interested in the final claim as it relates to people in general.
I think it's obviously true, but I wanted to check and see whether others had a different opinion.
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Date: 25/4/12 01:33 (UTC)Angry/confrontational people find other outlets besides calling people Big Poopy-heads on the internet. Retail management is my chosen field because I not only get to browbeat staff but also the public. Win-win.
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Date: 25/4/12 02:26 (UTC)2/5 would not LOL again.
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Date: 25/4/12 02:23 (UTC)fear-mongering hogwash at that.
but fear sells, so keep selling.
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Date: 25/4/12 02:38 (UTC)Ah, but what of others? You know, like bureaucratic functionaries? You know, like the folks we can't pull from office?
That is an interesting question. Our future may hang not on the hard-headedness of our elected officials, but on the zeitgeist backing their advisors in the specialist fields.
Interesting.
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Date: 25/4/12 12:17 (UTC)*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Humphrey_Appleby
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Date: 25/4/12 04:35 (UTC)It's impossible to get into politics and get anywhere without experiencing real confrontation and without knowing something tiny about consequences.
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Date: 25/4/12 06:28 (UTC)Repeated through the ages.
Simply because internet commentary creates a possibility for consequence free confrontation, it does remove all possibility of good old fashioned IRL face to face confrontation. The vast majority of people who interact on the internet still have to also interact in real life. They will go to school with other kids. They will ride the bus. They will get jobs where they work with people, They will eat in restaurants, They will walk in public places. Unless we hypothesize all these things magically disappearing, the asertion fails, as it assumes facts not in evidence, to wit "are gonna be people that have absolutely no experience with actual confrontation".
Experience with X does not, in and of itself, preclude experience with NOT X.
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Date: 25/4/12 07:43 (UTC)Also, chances are higher that rich people would've used a computer.
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Date: 25/4/12 19:12 (UTC)consequences be dammed....
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