Originally posted by socalpunX:
Synchro,In all actuality "Human social interaction" has been greatly altered as a result of the internet.People, most often strangers, now feel able to freely express themselves in a way that they'd never feel comfortable to do in person.Your 1000s year old law of human interaction is out the window.This free expression that people on the internet defend so vigerously has given everyone access to the hardest core of porn,(you ever seen farm animals in that context before the net?) extreme and violent racist groups (who were underground before the net ), and countless chatrooms where anonymity seems to give everyone the ability to say exactly what they want to complete strangers without any responsibility or reprocutions.(it's what made AOl billions)This in fact IS dangerous because people now are learning that there are no reprocutions for their actions and words.When are people able to draw the line between what they can say on the net and what they can say in person?And if our words stop having meaning or responsibility and one isn't held responsible for what is said what do we have? So,yes the internet is changing things.As far as with every great social change there has been some sort of revolution ,that is quite true.But you have to look at X owners as one social class .since their common bond is an automobile they are merely different variations of the same social class .Just as you can say whites are a social class but some listen to country music and some listen to classical and some listen to punk, you can say as x owners we are the same social class we merely dress and use our cars differently.But none the less the same car under the skin.By the way,the true revolutionary here is the goofball with the fugly wheels because he was the one wiling to advance against stereotype of his car and challenge the popular use and perception if what an Xterra is about.Yeah it looks like sh%t but we don't have to make the payments.I really need a job that will keep me busy!
and it is that very nature of people throwing out the years of social interaction for the newest medium on the block that is part of the the problem. that was my point. those laws still exist whether people like them are not. it is really sad that in teh past 6 years people have been trying so hard to demolish human interastion that has taken 1000s of years to create. so many things have gone out the window. face to face human social interaction is such an intregal thing to our species and is becoming less and less common place these days, which is VERY VERY sad.
as for your social class arguement, please DO NOT EVER lump me in with social classes of people by race. no offense, but that is about the most stupid classification i have heard in a long time.
and please do not give "revolutionary" status to somthing as pathetic as modifying a vehicle.
your arguements lack the view of the big picture of humantity. humanity is way bigger than the puny numbers of the people on the internet whose souls are being sucked into it and willingly feed the internet as if it were it's child. i too am part of that crowd, and many times wish i was not.
all of this being said, if you were to go back 50 years you'd find articles about television that mirror what we are talking about.
to look back over the life of the human species, anthropologically the first comunication types to thrive in any new form of communication are porn and religion. in the case of the internet porn is winning the early years. in the case of movable type, religion had that wrapped up for many years.
So we shall see how this all shakes out. i will bet you that in 20 years, those same old laws of social interaction will have creeped back into your "altered" human interactions.
damn i love these kinds of discussions. i wonder if there is a masters program in stuff like this?
[ 08-29-2001: Message edited by: Synchro ]
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