Matthew Martin ☑ on Nostr: I'm thinking of the efficacy of slacktivism, i.e. promoting an opinion via social ...
I'm thinking of the efficacy of slacktivism, i.e. promoting an opinion via social media. When people get rile up about something, it isn't one thoughtful person making a case for it, it is 100s of people making emotional cases for it over and over. It is the irl version of surround one person with a few hundred people standing around shouting.
Is this good or bad? It cuts both ways. It makes it harder to change minds in either direction on any issue.
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