“Don’t read, you’ll only judge.”
I am so very disappointed in all of us.
Social networking could have been the salvation of humanity from so many different varieties and avenues of tyranny, and not just the super important kinds either - even the simple tyranny of what you and your family were going to watch on television.
Instead, we’re using sites like reddit, tumblr and facebook only to broadcast the same signal we’re getting elsewhere. It’s true that certain victories (Homestuck itself is a principle example) have been won for new, original, well-written and groundbreaking ideas - but it seems like for every example of a victory you can show me, an equal and opposite reaction can be found (in HS’s case, one need only glance at the “fandom”).
Champions of prejudice are now making it emotionally mandatory in their friend groups to continue to propagate major misunderstandings with regard to the term ‘privilege’, and the Heads of these movements sabotage thought and render their followers unaware that they are acting in the interests of prejudicial thinking (I was literally privy to a blog posting which felt that Morgan Freeman’s dismissal of Black History Month was a loss for humanity, claimed Freeman didn’t understand the issue due to his wealth - seriously).
I have a knee-jerk reaction to people who use reddit as their primary source of news. You can see a culture developing - one that entirely revolves around promulgation of inside jokes, inside prejudices, inside standards. If your reaction to the above statement is one of offense, you’re probably too far gone to even understand why this is a horrifying, terrible thing.
tl;dr “Don’t read, you’ll only judge.” was the death-knell of counter culture liberty.
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