I believe it does. I wish we were back to an internet where none of that garbage existed. Because all that bringing voting systems and karma systems has done, is make people fret about what they say. Because it’s hard to tell sometimes if they’re saying it while focusing on the score they’ll receive after saying it, than they’re saying it and not do that.
And that even includes the ones who really have these systems go to their heads. Where, the higher karma count they’ve acquired, the more of a holier-than-thou attitude they possess.
Not unless getting dirty looks IRL does, too.
As a teacher once told me, you have a right to speak, not to be taken seriously. If you’re right, that sucks, but you need to find a way to be okay with being in the minority.
people are hard wired for social approval, not individualistic inquiry of the truth.
the latter makes you a social pariah, but after you’re dead people will probably admire you for your commitment, but while you’re alive they will resent you for not telling them what they want to hear and being part of the group consensus.
a lot of our former great thinkers/scientists, etc we celebrate now… were totally socially ostracized from their communities at the time of their lives, often under threat of death. and still are today.
at least in the west today, you can say shit online and get downvoted or banned, but the government is going to jail or kill you for your work on mathematics, etc.
Well, mostly poets, artists and philosophers fall into that pattern. When a scientist comes up with something, it tends to be hard for a peer to argue with, and obscure enough to threaten few people. Einstein was Einstein, he mainly had problems with being a Jew, and being too famous. Feynman was sometimes unpopular, but was still listened to - even when in disguise.
Tons of political ideas will be massively unpopular in a given time and place. Unless you’re a big writer that some revolutionary picks up, or go all the way to joining La Resistance against a faction that loses within a lifetime, you’re probably not going to get much credit, even when you’re dead.