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Originally Posted by Ammi

..it’s a strange thing because social media and it’s influence and likes and dislikes and cancelling etc...is what we’ve made it...(...not we as in anyone of us personally...)...but it wouldn’t be what it is if it wasn’t made to ‘fit’ over time...but then it’s become everything we don’t want and never wanted and are completely opposed to...how odd really...it just goes to show that ‘unconditional’ can’t exist ...because ‘control’ can’t exist with these type things...

Isn't that the quandary of the modern human though, Ammi? Our hard-baked instincts, honed over millions of years, don't always match up with the modern world we've created very recently, and in quite self-destructive ways. We evolved to seek out high-energy foods to keep us going because such food was scarce; sweet things, fatty things... But now those foods are abundant... But we're still driven to eat them. We still instinctually find them delicious. And they're right there on the shelf! For most people, it takes significant self control and understanding the consequences of overeating high-energy-content food to say "no I'll have a salad".

The same applies socially. We're highly social animals, us humans, so we're driven to embrace social situations but we evolved sociological in tribes and villages of a few hundred, maybe at most clans of a few thousand. We were certainly never equipped to be operating on platforms of millions of people like social media.

I think TiBB serves as a good example really. We're a small community, people often disagree, people often come out with things that are ill thought through or even quite awful, but for the most part we get on with things... We still chat away in other threads... We are aware of people "by (user)name" and know what to expect of them and roughly where they're coming from... We peacefully co-exist with major flare ups being pretty rare.

You don't really get that on a huge platform like Twitter. A fleeting back-and-forth with usually a complete stranger who is more of "a viewpoint" than "a person". I mean... Not only is it a completely bizarre (in historical context) form of communication;we're actually instinctually DRIVEN to be wary of strangers, for obvious reasons.