I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

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71. The net has warped human perceptions of reality

It is generally a non-positive force in every direction.

I have been experiencing some epiphanies about the past 14+ years constantly lately. And certainly a lot of drivel is due to social media driven misperception of reality (I will spell it out more carefully in my own posts so I convey things simply, taking care neither to exacerbate existing divides needlessly nor to dilute anything down..I have a hunch that insipid complacence is not solely behind such an unfair world. Its also quasi-orchestrated conflicts via emotion triggers and a form of thought pollution I guess. How much that is the source as opposed to other factors remains to be seen..

It is lame when Marc Andreessen and other business people in ai/data/logistics who aren’t particularly good at real world science (however much cache they ger irl via advertising, marketing, entertainment, sports, betting, gaming) talk about equations. But there is a real mathematical picture of reality that runs in our brains on autopilot. It is pretty cool.

A lot of life is pretty conflict free and pleasant enough in my experience. I mean among people none of whom are particularly wealthy, glamorous etc but comfortable enough. Importantly, often people who feel they have enough and have no wish to be famous or wealthy. That stuff is a social scourge.

It clearly gets crazy at the top and chronic and extreme unfairness makes it more hellish the worse off you are economically, with every additional unfair roll of the dice, skewing the birth or life lottery against you more.

I have been fairly fortunate in some ways and had that sort of wiped out in others. I am pondering it..Many of us here/many people I follow (Troy Farah, Yasha Levine etc.) are apparently presumably “zealots”. Well..then we should be zealots better..