The Comments

[line b]

Read the comments and you encounter stupidity. Not wrong opinion stupidity, I mean stupid in the using fingers to count and struggling with object permanence way. Genuine deep stupidity. Dumbness as layer of reality and there is a massive amount of it in the water. This is something we don't reckon with the way we don't reckon with the color of the sky or the weather- no reason to fret about it much but sometimes I am reminded of it when I read the comments and not sure what to feel as this stupidity is one of life's completely opaque objects, like death. What does it mean to you? Or is this not really the case and the comments deceive us?


DO NOT make this about trump or brexit or for the love of god trans people if you do you will have entirely missed the point. Third is allowed to make comments about democracy in the abstract but that is all.

 

[version]

Is this copied and pasted from a comment?

 

[line b]

I feel like this is a moment everyone has. Like those moments when you remember you are aging and eventually going to die. The moment you remember that a lot of people seem to be really really stupid.

 

[version]

It's one of those things everyone knows but we aren't supposed to talk about, like ugliness. Also one of those things you can easily look like a knob talking about because it's difficult to discuss without considering yourself to be on the outside looking in.

 

[line b]

Older people seem to be more affected by the comments I.e. the classic boomer facebook screaming match because The Comments are a new phenomenon for them but for people that grew up with the internet they've always been there and they've always been so ridiculous that they just bleed into the general static of life. But you have moments of recognition every now and then

 

[line b]

Was there something that functioned like The Comments before or is our reality forever thickened now

 

[line b]

One of the better parts in East of Eden is describing the first automobiles showing up into town and the new presence of power lines in rural early 20th century California. The comments arriving feels like it could be a similar moment

 

[line b]

I am positive everyone here is smarter than the average commenter under NBA reels on instagram I think we can be a little snobbish in our safe space in here right now

 

[version]

Read the comments and you encounter stupidity. Not wrong opinion stupidity, I mean stupid in the using fingers to count and struggling with object permanence way. Genuine deep stupidity. Dumbness as layer of reality and there is a massive amount of it in the water. This is something we don't reckon with the way we don't reckon with the color of the sky or the weather- no reason to fret about it much but sometimes I am reminded of it when I read the comments and not sure what to feel as this stupidity is one of life's completely opaque objects, like death. What does it mean to you? Or is this not really the case and the comments deceive us?

DO NOT make this about trump or brexit or for the love of god trans people if you do you will have entirely missed the point. Third is allowed to make comments about democracy in the abstract but that is all.

Did you hear about Tea's favourite blogger, Sam Kriss, talking about this being a failing re: contemporary novels? Bit rich coming from him, but seemed to spark some discussion.

 

[line b]

I also don't think it's always an individual thing either it's can sometimes be an egregore that will posses for its own aims.

For example Kid Charlemagne and I are completely convinced that the stupidity that brews in Kobe Bryant mamba mentality motivational edit comment sections was the entity at the wheel when the Luka Doncic trade happened

 

[GhostofKinski]

I’m speaking more from YouTube experience as, I don’t have any x, twitter, etc but one of the reasons the comments are so polarized, beyond typical lack of any context is the Heading: ‘You goofs see this lefty snowflake get owned’
Or ‘Watch this fascist moron,…’
It’s very rarely just a ‘what do you make of this?’type heading. Even then though, the poster themself might be associated with coercive reaction.
As far as YT goes, I rarely if ever read the comments

 

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I’m speaking more from YouTube experience as, I don’t have any x, twitter, etc but one of the reasons the comments are so polarized, beyond typical lack of any context is the Heading: ‘You goofs see this lefty snowflake get owned’
Or ‘Watch this fascist moron,…’
It’s very rarely just a ‘what do you make of this?’type heading. Even then though, the poster themself might be associated with coercive reaction.
As far as YT goes, I rarely if ever read the comments

That doesn't explain why the commenters are falling for the bait in the first place though.

 

[line b]

Ya that's a little off the point I'm getting at here. Theres a type of engagement bait bot post on twitter that's a highschool freshman level math problem and it will spark serious debate every time.

 

[GhostofKinski]

That doesn't explain why the commenters are falling for the bait in the first place though.

Something to do.
Lot of sad lives in the webesphere

 

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Something to do.
Lot of sad lives in the webesphere

They're not all chronically online though. It's people with jobs and families and the usual.

 

[line b]

Did you hear about Tea's favourite blogger, Sam Kriss, talking about this being a failing re: contemporary novels? Bit rich coming from him, but seemed to spark some discussion.

I feel like it was very big with the modernists to write from the perspective of a mentally challenged person. That's Beckett whole deal. And lots of stupidity in older comedy of manners writing. Does seem to be less of thing as lit develops though. I think post modernisms reckoning with an excess of information makes the idiots perspective less enticing. What's the stupidity canon?

 

[GhostofKinski]

They're not all chronically online though. It's people with jobs and families and the usual.

Clearly, so are people that consume copious amounts of ‘niche’ catagories of porn.
Otherwise normal family folks.
The anonymity makes it acceptable in the persons mind, ‘this ain’t me, If my partner suggested this act I am as likely to puke as go along.
Same on line. You can be a professional twat, and simultaneously be a fun bloke to chat with over a beer.

 

[version]

Right, but none of that's addressing the stupidity @line b is talking about. We're talking specifically about people who are stupid enough to fall for things, not people who are otherwise intelligent and doing things for the sake of something to do. You can be in those comment sections and say things which aren't stupid.

 

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I feel like it was very big with the modernists to write from the perspective of a mentally challenged person.

I imagine a lot of writers wouldn't feel comfortable doing that at the moment. You could easily get piled on for trying to write from the perspective of a mentally challenged person.

What's the stupidity canon?

Don Quixote? A Confederacy of Dunces?

 

[GhostofKinski]

I don’t get the DQ, or confederacy of dunces exampls. Maybe I best back off this subject.my understanding of the ‘real qualitative’ discussion is either painfully obviovious, or precisely the kind of personal n being discussed.