It’s not a consequence of the medium, people, or wild behaviors entering civilized spaces. It is a consequence of Authoritarian Network Modernists analyzing humanity by Seeing Like a Network, in terms of Ideal Users. The 1st example was the Rational Man of market high Modernists
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James Scott’s Seeing Like a State has an exact isomorphism here. Instead of legibilizing broad contexts (like a forest or city), Authoritarian Network Modernists merely legibilize humans into Design Personas and then complain when humans humanhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/ …
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I meant to write a whole post on this and have a draft sitting around, but like so much of my thinking lately, I stop short of publishing the post because of a sense of “why bother, it won’t make any difference”
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What actually “solves” this problem is replacing Authoritarian Network-Modernist visions of the system with a store of social capital generated by commons work. This acts like a fossil fuel energy source. There’s a reason YouTube/FB want to use Wikipedia to clean up its messes
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