• TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        12 days ago

        The way I see it it’s either:

        • a true believer who is so far removed from reality to whom a proposal like this makes sense. You can’t really have any kind of argument or conversation with this person, they are therefore to be ignored.

        • someone posting rage or engagement bait, therefore to be ignored.

        I’ve been trying to only engage with people I feel are acting in good faith, and I find myself falling for bait way less.

        • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          12 days ago

          I think he’s to some extent a true believer in the bait, as in he doesn’t actually think about what he’s saying actually means. Outrage is engagement and engagement is communication and that’s a success. I don’t think the actual proposal here crosses his mind, just that he can picture a high view or reply count in the corner.

          If you’ll allow me to be a little pretentious I think this is downstream from the current cultural explosion of willful ignorance. Like genuine nihilism about why people exchange information, why they would use a communication tool like Twitter at all, and just such a cynical understanding of what it means to share ideas with other people.

          My god I’m turning into Jorkin Peanitson. I gotta stop typing before I start complaining about the strangulation of capital M Meaning and how it relates to dreaming about my grandparents

          • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            12 days ago

            Nah you’re good. Baudrillard was ranting about the shape of the message and it’s intended reaction to it being so far removed from its actual meaning far earlier than Peterson started going on his benzo-withdrawal sermons.

            You’re right in that to people like this words, and to an extent, all communication have lost any meaning beyond being levers that, if you use them in the right order, you get the food pellets (engagement, money, clout, access, etc.).

            Their thought process is not different from that of a lab rat in a maze, except that the rat is physiologically incapable of structured thought, so I won’t hold it against it if it does whatever it can to get the food pellets. This person has chosen to not have any further thoughts beyond that. All the more reason to ignore them.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    13 days ago

    I was gonna make a comparison to Robert Moses, but then I realized Moses at least built parks around the landings of his bridges and highways.

  • whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    13 days ago

    Honestly if it weren’t for the working people living on Manhattan I would fully support turning Central Park into a data center to vindictively stick it to Wall Street and all the lib elites on the island

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    13 days ago

    Bro, we as a species don’t even want new housing built during a time where we ran out of houses. What makes them think everyone would be OK with the destruction of a park everyone loves for this bullshit?