[ExI] outrage

[Anders]

On 2016-06-16 15:04, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
> What do you think?  Are people more touchy now?

The media landscape makes it easier to hear about and spread outrage, 
which means that you can reach larger groups with your outrage and have 
a higher likelihood of triggering the easily outraged.

But there is also an aspect of lacking analysis. In the past I think 
people trusted authorities and theories more, making them argue based on 
some framework. Today many people do not have frameworks, and have been 
told it is OK not to have a framework, so they just express the outrage 
they feel without trying to justify it. While it is somewhat honest (a 
lot of angry socialists or existentialists were arguing what they did 
because they were angry rather than because of a conclusion from Marx or 
Sartre) it makes it hard to have a dialog.

-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University