Outrage Culture (1 Viewer)

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

Some good observations and perspectives in this thread. 

I personally think outrage culture/economy is just another symptom of the decline of western civilization.

Things really ought to change, with more focus on what really truly matters, but we're too mired in media- and consumption-obsessed modalities that seem way too ingrained in the social fabric and it's all exacerbated by the digital age.

One of the more interesting aspects of digital culture/social media is that by enabling a platform for any and every opinion to be expressed, it paradoxically creates sustained bubbles of self-perpetuating viewpoints, closing off open-mindedness of differing points of view.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Who is this KC Muskrat person?

 

[ZenoRazon]

Unfortunately, one of the side effects of this outrage culture is that it often doesn't matter if you're not actually outraged, or even close to it.  If you express a complaint or any other type of negative reaction towards something - no matter how reasonable the complaint or how measured the language used to express it - someone will take it as outrage. 

Who really cares if somebody takes it as outrage?  I hand out free food, somebody will complain about something, so who really cares?

It would take a hell of a lot to take me to...outrage....and if others need that,  I don't care.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

We have coddled the weak and their numbers are growing exponentially. 

The other day they closed schools because it was too cold. I rolled my eyes and my wife defended it by saying "some people don't have coats or arent prepared for this type of weather". I responded back with GOOD! Not everyone is supposed to survive!

But I'm an insensitive cro magnon so take it for what its worth.