On The Topic That I Just Noticed Blown Up...

On the topic that I just noticed blown up...

So apparently this hatemonger is an actual person, but I choose to still hope she is not real.

Why?

Because we, as a human race, have much to fear if we can produce someone so inherently hateful, they feel as though it is their solemn duty to destroy people and they have nothing to lose in this pursuit.

Against someone like this, how can we fight? How far can we go in our own defence before we are the villains? Is institutionalisation an option, and if so, is it a fair one?

I know there are some of you scoffing at the idea of fairness when dealing with such a person, but in dealing with villains, demons, any of the world’s evils, we need to police ourselves lest we join their ranks.

They have tried to silence her internet presence, but in doing so, have blown it up. They are rallying to shut her down, but tagging her name on this post, I am putting my own self at risk of exposure. ( I will do so, but only because I am stubborn and wreckless) Put her under house arrest, take away her internet? She will get through, somehow. Whatever solution we put out there, she will find a way to circumvent it.

It is the people who scream the loudest who get the most attention, and she’s getting you, me, all of us, to scream for her, and that terrifies me, because this person has such disregard for humanity, not much unlike another German who has plagued our world’s history.

So yes, I will sit here, wishing, hoping, praying to the universe that this person is just a troll, because unlike the things under our beds and in our closets when we were children, this is one monster that can hurt us.

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blissfullybrightsstuff

7 months ago

as foodhouse said: twitter gives you mental illness

Everyone obsessed with Twitter is a terminally online culture war victim trying to forge a media career and addicted to spiking their own cortisol and they need to get a real job and integrate into society. Sooo glad that I meanwhile am unemployed in a chic way and spend all my time on Tumblr which denotes a refined, even aristocratic sensibility and a noble commitment to upholding a vanishing way of life in an uncomprehending world

You know the marshmallow experiment?

So there’s this experiment where researchers take a bunch of preschoolers and give them a marshmallow and they say, “ok, you can eat this now, or you can wait thirty minutes and then we’ll give you two marshmallows.”

And they leave them alone with hidden cameras and watch the struggle of willpower and it’s supposed to say something about delayed gratification.

And this thing gets used to explain why some people are better with money than others, or make various other better life choices. The Aesop here is if you can delay your satisfaction, you’ll get ahead.

But here’s a proposed version of that experiment that’s more realistic.

Give the kid the marshmallow and explain it all as above. Then come back 30 minutes later and say, “Sorry, actually we ran out of marshmallows, so even though you didn’t eat yours, you’re not getting a second one. Other kids got two, but you don’t. Also, every kid with fewer than two marshmallows has to give back their original marshmallow. Sorry we didn’t tell you that earlier now hand it over.”

Then call them back for a repeat experiment where you give them the same offer. See how many kids scarf that marshmallow down in two seconds flat because like hell they’ll trust you again.

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