>Now, as we can see from the previous section on dopamine-reward-systems, what social media and quantifiable discourse is doing is mentally limiting what we can say and do, not by way of oppression, but by way or ostracization, alienation and peer-pressure.
The overton window is wider than its ever been at any point in history.
Like I think this particular thing was overblown in the first place and also people are already correcting for it.
4bpp · 14m ago
If the author's theory were true and social media dynamics were indeed compressing the Overton window, wouldn't these sorts of "the Overton window is way too wide" posts be exactly the reaction one would expect to it on social media? Thinking that extremism is running rampant is what it feels like to be the thought police from the inside.
Muromec · 26m ago
I was with the author until that moment and the list of things "we" have supposedly forgot. Overtone window seems to be widening if anything. With the most unhinged hot takes of the 20th century being talked over again and all that.
At least the article doesn't blame "them" for doing it to "us". Or is it implied? Does the other article blame on the usual suspects of the day?
nathan_compton · 21m ago
The main difference now is that everyone sees everyone else's overton window because we are all just letting our asses hang out on social media and this engenders a lot of conflict, dog-piling, etc. Not great stuff, certainly, but not really evidence that the overton window is narrowing.
In other respects I think the submission is more on point, though still reactionary.
Nopoint2 · 10m ago
As I've been telling you for years now:
It's pretty literally lobotomy, in fact worse, because it involves the entire neocortex, and not just the frontal lobe. (no, you are wrong about that too, it's a level of thinking on top of what most of you have now. Lizards, birds also live without it.)
You are wrong, iron is toxic, and lead isn't. Heavy metals accumulate, because they are essential elements.
Iron accumulates, and shortens your lifespan, because the body fails to excrete it.
(it's completely normal for proteins to contain other elements, it's just controversial for those few, not for let's say manganese) There is no reason why anybody should be iron deficient, it's an abundant element. There is no reason to keep any stores either, the body needs to work to not poison itself, it's too abundant.
If I am right, an you are wrong, you are killing us. If you are right, and I am wrong, why are the things in this post happening?
The overton window is wider than its ever been at any point in history.
Like I think this particular thing was overblown in the first place and also people are already correcting for it.
At least the article doesn't blame "them" for doing it to "us". Or is it implied? Does the other article blame on the usual suspects of the day?
In other respects I think the submission is more on point, though still reactionary.
It's pretty literally lobotomy, in fact worse, because it involves the entire neocortex, and not just the frontal lobe. (no, you are wrong about that too, it's a level of thinking on top of what most of you have now. Lizards, birds also live without it.)
You are wrong, iron is toxic, and lead isn't. Heavy metals accumulate, because they are essential elements. Iron accumulates, and shortens your lifespan, because the body fails to excrete it. (it's completely normal for proteins to contain other elements, it's just controversial for those few, not for let's say manganese) There is no reason why anybody should be iron deficient, it's an abundant element. There is no reason to keep any stores either, the body needs to work to not poison itself, it's too abundant.
If I am right, an you are wrong, you are killing us. If you are right, and I am wrong, why are the things in this post happening?