[ExI] outrage

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 21:37:23 UTC 2016


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.

anders

Outrage appears to be very seductive to people with histrionic personality
disorder (y'all are getting a course in psych, bit by bit).  Their
threshold for being outraged is low and so may be their real wish for a
happy ending.

I agree with anders about trusting authorities.  At one time I think that
many people would agree with a man who said 'They can't put it on TV if it
isn't true.'  If anyone said that nowadays they'd get strange looks.  The
media are unashamedly biased.

Only one acceptable framework around here:  religion.

bill w

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Anders <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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