huskylawyer
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bmorepunk":2mpa6k1v said:huskylawyer":2mpa6k1v said:bmorepunk":2mpa6k1v said:I find Huskylawer's use of Communism and McCarthy to be intellectually lazy, particularly if there was an actual law degree attained.
Top 5 law school degree obtained (Michigan Law - GO BLUE!!), but I digress. 8)
I think you are smart enough to know that I'm not making a literal connection. The fact of the matter is that fear, righteous indignation and collective group think that occurs in a reactionary environment (spurred on by the ease of communication created by social networking, e.g., Twitter) has caused a "bandwagon" effect IMHO that causes people to not think rationally, and instead, reactionary.
Populism lived vibrantly without Twitter. Given this age of slacktivism, the correlation of people doing whatever stupid thing they are doing on Twitter is probably not high to people who will actually do something to change the situation.
I think you guys give way to much credit to Twitter and the user base as a whole.
Again, you are taking words a little to literally. "Twitter" or "Twitter Mob" is just a saying to define social media and the press in general. Does Twitter alone cause people to act differently when faced with crisis? Probably not. Does social media and the press collectively exert tremendous power and influence in today's environment. I think yes. A guy stewing alone in his apartment over a perceived wrong isn't very powerful. Get 2,000,000 of those same guys expressing outrage about a perceived wrong over social networking platforms is something else.
I'm not a tin foil type and worried about the black helicopters coming lol. But i do find that the swiftness of the public's reaction (and their reactionary stances) to be a product of the ease of communication these days. Something that we can all agree on wasn't as big of an issue in the Tags and Rozelle days.