@freemo @georgetakei
Granted, but its not the only thing that's in overdrive and frivolous nowadays.
Which is why I said that it wasn't the problem, it was one symptom of the problem.
Hopefully if (normally I'd say when, but I'm not so sure that it'll happen) things calm down, we'll see a return to a "normal cancel culture" like it was in the days of yore. 😅

@freemo @georgetakei
I think it was already here before, but it got a significant boom when smartphones became a thing & we got instant access to anything & everything.
As for the rest...
The world is becoming more extremist in its views. Ppl are being pushed further & further apart, to the point where we almost sound alien to one another.
That happened slowly with major help from social media & the ease with which it groups us with similar thinking ppl while separating us from everyone else.

@freemo @georgetakei
Conceptually I agree, but who's the "we" in this example?
We're constantly seeing examples of things that make no sense, like censoring things because someone gets offended by it.
Like you said, it's easier and easier for things to get removed no matter how small the protest or inconsequential the subject.
And as a result we have good cancelations and bad cancelations, depending on which side each one of us is... 😉

@freemo @georgetakei
We are much more dependent on instant gratification, instant responses, sometimes even before we know all the facts.
And that was my point. Society has always had ways to punish those it sees as transgressors, so what we're doing now isn't that different from what the Greeks started doing more than 2000 years ago.
But this is part of a bigger issue, one that has ramifications in many aspects of our society.
Simply put, this cancel culture is a symptom of a larger problem.

@freemo @georgetakei But the change we have now is not a shift in that mentality, its with the ease of access that we have to information and the ability to react to it almost instantly.
We see a post that angers us and we can immediately reply to it, and repost it, express our anger, giving it greater visibility.
But in that same way, we can see something online and immediately buy it.
We've become a more visceral society, where we tend to act more impulsively than ever before.
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@freemo @georgetakei
I'm not because my point was that the central issue is not the cancelation mentality, it's the "I'm outraged now so lets do something now, preferably something that doesn't involve much effort".
Actions have consequences, that's the basis for ostracism. So that basis will always be behind most responses to things like this.
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@freemo @georgetakei
But, you stop giving them money & you'll see how fast they change their tune. You stop subscribing to their platforms, you stop buying the products that advertise on those shows & you'll see how fast they come to the table.
But we won't do that because we're a consumer society that likes our trinkets, & comforts, & we want to watch our favorite movies and shows.
And so, we complain about it online because we lack the courage to do anything that actually costs us something.

@freemo @georgetakei
But personally I'm not a fan. Because the ones with actual power (the corporations) don't care that much about noise, about social media posts, even about protests and picket lines.
What they do care is money. They don't care that you destroy their products after you've already paid for them.
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