>>12090099These people are mostly former honors students or otherwise systematically-addicted persons who are Ted Kaczynski's literal exact definition of "oversocialized". They are incapable of making decisions or forming opinions beyond the larger group dynamic.
And I don't just mean they're catatonically indecisive--I mean that holding positions even remotely antithetical to the current mainstream narrative isn't even remotely possible for most of them. It's a non-starter. They will not discuss anything beyond what is permissible within the parameters of discussion dictated by upvotes and popular social/legacy media personalities and channels.
I brought up the idea of going on 4chan to a few of my friends who browse Reddit, or make up the composite sketch of those who do, a couple days ago, and they shut down. Like, immediately. I know for a fact none of them have ever been here. But they won't even try. Like fucking clockwork, one mention of this place to people like that, and they HAVE TO move on. They cannot handle differentiation. They're great guys and good friends, but that attitude is incredibly telling.
That's the mentality that roams that website--and they're the lower end of the spectrum. Most people on Reddit have been conditioned, thanks not just to upvotes, but all social media in general, to only be receptive to what they are receptive to--meaning that anything they aren't IMMEDIATELY RECEPTIVE TO, regardless of merit, is disregarded at the least, and absolutely villainized at the worst.
These people grew up in a social structure and became addicted to the general validation of behaving in the way that most other people in the structure did. Independent thought and action is seen as deviant and almost morally reprehensible by them. They form the middle-management PR backbone of the largest corporation in human history, and none of them seem to have any goddamn idea of it.
Highly depressing.
