I’m going to challenge you all, right here, right now. Put down the thought of what’s right, what’s wrong, how people should be reacting, ect. I’m an apathetic bastard and I really could care less either way.
What I have noticed though is there’s a LOT of divide on this one, more than usual. Lemmy’s pretty homogenous but go outside to Facebook, Instagram, reddit, any of the mainstream places, hell, even talking about it with friends or family, you get some really differing views and people seem ready to discard longtime relationships over it. Hell, I’ve seen it happen 3 times now so far.
°So what do you think, take off the politics hat for a second and put on the sociology hat. Take a breath, and examine your surroundings.
°How does what’s going on make you feel, sad? Angry? Scared, tired or relieved?
°What do you think this says about which direction our society is going, have you got any predictions? Any old timers who have been through near societal collapses before want to throw in their perspective?
I’m genuinely interested in what you all think
The main thing I take away from this is how soft people have become since the corporate sanitization of the web. That video was tame compared to stuff that regularly made the rounds even ten years ago. The way people talk about it, you’d think it was a drug cartel video.
Back in high school my friends would show me cartel beheading videos on the bus to track meets. It sounds far-fetched, but it really happened. I couldn’t even believe it either.
The thing that changed was not how vile or tame shocking videos have gotten, or how soft people are, but how widespread videos like this are now.
Like, for example, those taliban beheading videos that made the rounds 20 years ago were way worse, but to encounter them you had to be in edgy spaces online. They basically didn’t exist for normal people. However, this video was all over the mainstream web, and normal people aren’t desensitized to gore like the millennials who were chronically online as teens.
Most Americans are used to news videos that cut or blur the gore. So many people calling it NSFL have never watched foreign media.