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I have been on reddit for just about 12 years now. Something I've noticed over time is just how hateful the place has become. A complete outrage machine. Every single sub became filled with it. I've filtered so many subreddits over the last few years, it's insane. I don't know enough about this place to be sure, but I do hope it doesn't become the same type of echo chamber of anger.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a point: don't fall into the trap of thinking that high-intelligence or whatever you think is not "normie" is less prone to all of the very same emotion-driven bullshit as all others.

No matter how intelligent you are, you can't out-smart your own subconscious because it's just as "intelligent" as the rest of you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It has nothing to do with intelligence. With everything, you have people who are passionate and everyone else who is just there to skim off the top. The latter don't care about degradation of the thing because their interest in it never runs deep enough for them to notice or care.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would make "normies" the ones "who are just there to skimming off the top" and "people who are passionate" non-"normies".

Personally I would hesitate to go as far as saying that being passionate is abnormal. Maybe not the majority but not so out there as to be abnormal.

Further, I've seen plenty of dumb, negative or wasteful "being passionate about things" (including in myself, though I'm trying to improve). A sports fan fanatic about his or her team is passionate but if that means they're constantly involved in tribalistic discussions that's not a positive contribution in any way form or shape. Similarly in my profession (software engineering) the young an passionate types tend to be the most innefective of all (kinda like me swimming before I actually was formally taught how to do it - lots of throwing water all around for little in the way of results).

All this to say that I don't think "being passionate" is abnormal or always positive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would make “normies” the ones “who are just there to skimming off the top” and “people who are passionate” non-“normies”.

That is what I just said, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, anchoring your definition of "normative" to what is in the 2020s little more than a tech marketing word targetting the young and naive, is certainly an "interesting" take on mankind.