I just remembered an episode from my seventh grade: there was this chapter on other countries in the world in social science textbook and the teacher asked a student a question about superpowers, and he replied: USA & USSR. Teacher, an elderly lady, was quiet for a minute or two and then with extreme sadness says, 'the USSR does not exist anymore, it's gone.' I couldn't really understand that time what she was talking about(scored 56% in 7th), but I find myself thinking about it now.
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Walls and shells, it seems, are erected as a response to painful experiences, but not every organism has the luxury of erecting one. Not every nation can build sea walls to shield them from rising seas, or the destructive storms that will come. Not every person can get on a plane to “get away from it all”. For now, walls belong only to the powerful. And rapacious creatures can only expect rapacious behavior in return; they project their nature onto the rest of the world.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/07/31/there-is-no-safe-place-to-hide/
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/07/31/there-is-no-safe-place-to-hide/
During 2016, when JNU was branded anti-national, one of our professors and a former JNUSU president went to JNU daily to show solidarity despite the warning from authorities, in the end he was forced to resign, another professor, a former BHUSU president was pushed to sidelines, students of IIMC were barred from entering JNU and yet the solidarity reamained, it remains and it will remain! #jnu
3 years ago, a senior of mine was expelled because he reported a story that went against the college administration, and he was barred from entering the campus. He would have found it very difficult to survive if it was not for JNU. So many of India's journalists are grateful to JNU, because its existence itself opened a whole new world for us. We are with you #jnu and would continue fighting with you.
During my batch, our hostels were taken away because sanghis decided that they no longer wanted students who came from underprivileged backgrounds (Imagine India's premiere journalist institute doing that). Watching how JNU students fought for their rights made us fight that decision and reclaim our hostels. Believe me, this is not about JNU, it's about closing the doors of higher education to people who have been continuously kept away from the system, and it's a fight we'll have to fight. #jnu
Though I have never been part of JNU, so many students of IIMC(not officially part of JNU but connected through a backdoor gate) like me are grateful to it for the countless things it has taught us over the years, the hospitality and solidarity offered to us when our campus was taken over by a Sanghi administration. I remember many of my friends who came from very poor backgrounds wait till 9 pm so that they can claim the leftover food of JNU hostels. It is a space that should be protected. #JNU
@raman Agree! Does that mean though twitter may look similar to mastodon, they are supposed to have different effects? or the effects will be different in different mastodon instances depending on the nature of the instance?
@raman Interesting. For example, a person who goes to a library and looks for for Capital by Marx, and another person who is shown sponsored ads of Capital by Marx by Amazon based on his past activities, and then purchases it, the experience of both the people of reading the book will be inherently different?
McLuhan also says, "once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit by taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left."
Is mastodon different from twitter in the case of trying to take benefit?
Are its designs not made to make one more addictive, or to add more people? or the aim is to really encourage honest conversations, even if the user uses it once a month.
Comments?
Is mastodon different from twitter in the case of trying to take benefit?
Are its designs not made to make one more addictive, or to add more people? or the aim is to really encourage honest conversations, even if the user uses it once a month.
Comments?
I wonder how Marshall McLuhan would have explained the whole twitter vs mastodon difference.
For example he said, 'the medium is the message' and the content itself does not matter in the long run.
Is it true for internet, for facebook or twitter or youtube?
Internet's long term effects, be it on any person, left or right, reader and watcher, are they similar or different?
Our whole perception of reality, has it been changed or not? Does it matter what you were watching?
For example he said, 'the medium is the message' and the content itself does not matter in the long run.
Is it true for internet, for facebook or twitter or youtube?
Internet's long term effects, be it on any person, left or right, reader and watcher, are they similar or different?
Our whole perception of reality, has it been changed or not? Does it matter what you were watching?