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I'm so tired of the current state of the internet (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Everywhere you browse, people have such strong opinions about everything and are so toxic or extremely negative. You start playing a game, want to check the forums or something and most of the posts are people being mean to each other. You open social media to keep in touch with people that you'd like to maintain a certain level of contact and there's always some people that are always complaining about every single thing.

I see myself more and more closing myself into a bubble which makes me appreciate Beehaw much more. I know I am guilty of being taken away by the toxicity and sometimes replying things I wouldn't be proud of but since I joined Beehaw I see myself policing myself more and more focused on being better.

Just a quick rant, I currently started playing Baldur's Gate 3 and I am honestly pissed off on the fact people can't give feedback without being rude or "gamers" just shitting on developers because they are stans of another game. I wanted to be active on the forum and comment on bugs and such because I want the game to be better but it is so depressing reading people being awful so often.

Why are we so shitty to each other? I'm so tired.

Edit: Pardon me if I used weird terms or grammar errors, english isn't my first language

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humans would've died out if that were true. It's literally in our DNA to cooperate with each other. That's how we survived and thrived as a species.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's changed is the ability to travel anywhere in the world and to project technology. It used to be a much slower process and oceans kept things split and at a much slower pace.

It’s literally in our DNA to cooperate with each other.

Is this supposed to be a scientific challenge to me? Like can you point to it? What I see is that forming gangs and armies is a human behavior characteristic. Did you here how Japanese people behaved in attacking all over the world, even Perl Harbor, in the 1920's to 1950? Did you know about the Crusades of people from Europe going all the way to the Middle East to attack each other over a book that says one part of land is more important than others? Are you aware of the complete destruction of cultures by the Spaniards when they came to the Americas?

Your answer seems wildly simplistic.

It’s literally in our DNA to cooperate with each other.

Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, seems to be in the human behavior once technology comes into the picture. Multiple human groups arrive at the same solution. China, USA, Russia - and form alliances around it. People barely protest it and vote for politicians in democratic (much like voting on Beehaw) methods to continue to support it. It is reality of how humans address their differences, with 45 minute delivery of nuclear destruction ready 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.