At small social scales - neighborhood bulletin board systems, specialized mailing lists, Facebook when it was just some Harvard kids - social media could be a fun chat among friends. At large social scales it is a nonviolent, but at least as verbally nasty, form of warfare.
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I agree, but it doesn't have to be the way...I think is new to all of us and we don't know what to do with it or how to use it properly....with time & experience, we'll learn to be more effective at it.
Unless or until we all go to ambassador's school and learn to be diplomatic, it sadly does have to be that way. And of course foreign relations is also a nonviolent form of warfare, just one that is more polite than social media.
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*Foreign relations is normally proximately nonviolent. Of course it is ultimately violent, as in based on threats of war and legal coercion such as embargoes, sanctions, etc.
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I'll bet the gutenberg press had a similar effect for some time after its invention. Unleashing a partisan free for all in which grievances were weaponized before the peacemakers were able to engage across identity group boundaries. We are going through a similar process now.
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Indeed it was called the Reformation. The "peacemakers reaching across identity group boundaries" is an illusion, though -- usually people who see themselves in that role are or become the most partisan and vicious of all.
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Would you agree that since the reformation the tension / violence between identity groups has decreased or increased? Wouldn't that have to be a result of people extending each other the benefit of the doubt, and agreeing to end the partisan slur fest? What would you call ...
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The people that do that in good faith? I agree that some the worst partisans would call themselves peacemakers. That doesn't mean that the peacemakers don't exist or grow to outgun the partisans.
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Hey, I am only speaking for personal experience, because when I first got FB in 2006 I was writing stupid stuff on people's wall. What a dummy!...I had to learn the hard way, and I see other doing the same now. So I still have little faith in humanity. =)
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