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[–] shundi82 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So that's what Skipper the Eyechild would have turned into:

https://youtu.be/HMeusqCunkM?si=VqiT19qhsz3O938R

Reddit is a shithole in c/[email protected]

[–] shundi82 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But the poster you replied to has a point:

Just like most animals the greater majority of people try to avoid as many direct conflicts as possible IRL. And they're full of empathy and compassion - even for other animals in distress and inanimate objects (saw off the fingers of a plastic doll in front of others and see how they treat you afterwards).

But of course people will lose a part of that compassion etc once they move within society without feeling like a part of it. One example is driving a car. You're way less aware of being a part of society even though you're "swimming" in it. Feeling a strong individual agency and being empowered by two tons of steel while simultaneously being greatly restricted by everyone and everything around you will do that to you.

Same goes for the (social) media landscape. We feel empowered by our own echo chambers and/or chosen media outlet while barely interacting with anyone who could challenge our beliefs (which, funnily enough, is often the right call in that context, because we can't change strong opposing beliefs via social media). And since it's all an indirect, mostly faceless interaction, our beliefs will automatically be strengthened and we'll be more likely to agitate anyone with opposing beliefs (while still avoiding any direct conflict).

So I'd say it's more of a flaw in our design, that is being exploited, than a general lack of sympathy/empathy (of which we actually have plenty).

Which means you can't hold any one individual to higher standards. Because that's not where we "fail". It'd take a much broader appliance of social securities (housing, food, healthcare, education etc all over the world) and a fundamental change in the way we interact. But you and I won't change that (though I guess it's comforting telling ourselves that we could individually change things on a greater scale).

What show took you the longest to get into? in c/[email protected]

[–] shundi82 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me it's "The Mighty Boosh": https://youtu.be/FiU-oCWPhx0

I fell in love with my now ex-wife (then girlfriend) in no small part because she had great humor and I liked a lot of the shows she liked.

So when one day in 2010 she raved about "The Mighty Boosh", of which she owned all DVDs including the live stuff, I had to check it out.

I started watching S01E01 and felt like watching someone's fever dream trying to recreate a kid's show. Same for the second, third etc episode.

Usually I'd have long given up on that show. But there had to be something to it, if she loved the show so much.

So I started watching season 2 ("Milky Joe" or "The Priest and The Beast", I can't really remember) and it clicked immediately. From there I binged all other episodes + season 3 + season 1 again - and I loved it all and couldn't understand how I didn't like it initially.

And thanks to that I discovered other gems from the same "circle" like "Snuff Box", "Garth Marenghi's Dark Place", "Luxury Comedy" and "The IT Crowd" (some episodes haven't aged well, but others are just filled with gold).