How easily things go viral, how easily people get, influenced by the words of others online, and start, attacking each other, and this world is less peaceful than ever before, and it's still all due to the anonymity online, because we can't be seen or touched, that protected us, and we can say whatever the HELL we want about someone else, and we don't CARE if what we say about someone else is true or false, we just want to say it out loud, and that, is how the online world is, not a good place, because it turns the people in this world, against one another…going viral, and trending, and it's still, NOTHING good! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The social media exposed the worst sides of human nature, the coming on of the U.S. Presidential Elections, the Paris Olympic, the riots in Great Britain, people started libeling online, without holding back, the volumes are a lot higher compared to the debate of Brexit and the first time Trump had campaigned for his presidency this time around. Seeing the words from all around, the people in the U.S., criticizing the left as bullies, and the right as fools, the British citizens being, shut in, and anti-immigration, and the supposedly diversified Olympic, also got, infected with the, prejudices. And these absurd videos only used the exaggerated expressions, and lasting only about ten seconds, and more than thousands started sending their approvals, and if someone responded in the comments section, then, there would be, more claims, that fitted to whatever the original post was saying, the online became, a poisonous, cesspool.
During these past few days, there were, at least TWO rumors about the Olympics, one, the opening ceremonies, with the drag queens play out the Last Supper, another, about whether or not the competitors are, transgendered. As people are competing to voice their opinions, are they, really, trying to, state their, opinions? On the former, if it is interpreted as a joke, then, this showed that the world has a complete LACK of respect for the diversities, then, awhile ago, someone matchmade the goddess's statue with the god's, and had her carry her "husband's" last name, then, would this event be, worth all of our, celebrations on?
the trolls, protected by the anonymity of the internet...
being trolled, and the identities of the perps, stayed, covered up, illustration from online
As for blaming the writer, J.K. Rowlings for being, anti-"transgender", a lot of the people who'd commented didn't think before they posted, if they're supportive of the transgendered competitors, or are they, full certain that the competitors aren't, transgendered, and these two are logically opposing ideas, not to mention, there are, a total of "gender orientation", spanning from "pansexual to "asexual", the spectrum of politically correct gender positions should not be criticized. And, the debate on the cross-gender, are not based off of the post-seventies values, but instead, based off of a personal instinct of self-preservation; the self is priority, and, it doesn't matter if we have to STEP on someone, to get on top, is everybody going through the process of being influenced by Trump Americanization?
And now, the world is filled with ideologies, gender, sexuality, race, left or right…….we all become sentinels of ideologies, the problem is, brutalizing those who aren't the same as we, does that make us, more, civilized? I'd reread E.M. Forster's "A Room with a View", I'd accidentally discovered, that over a hundred years ago, the British travelers met in Italy, the first day they'd met, they'd talked gracefully about the elections, Irish independence, afterwards, the travelers returned back to England, and started talking about politics with the landlords that they'd met for the very first time, on socialism too. This was quite surprising to me, as the people in Taiwan, even if they're old neighbors, all they chat about are the weather, as the subjects shifted to political parties and politics, there would be the spats, the arguments. And yet, once those who had been "digitized" went online, those who'd self-preserved from before, took off that cloak of invisibility, started shouting and screaming, running toward the frontlines.
People of my generation had once pursued absolute freedom of speech, looking at now, there are those in this country who are supportive of restricting the right to free speech, and there are many of the cases on the constitutional level in the U.S. that are, currently, debating this, subject, and I can't help but wondered, did we, pursue the freedom of speech, wrong back then? Everybody is different, and the digital detox that's slowly trending now, is building the walls taller, to block out the mess from Crusoe's tiny island; there are, those with the scars of ideology on them, the sores started rotting out, and they'd, ripped that band-aid off to infect those around them too. I hope, that maybe, the world become, more and more civilized, those zombies outside of these, digital walls we'd erected up, are our friends in the future, all waiting for us, to extend that hand of friendship, over the, fences.
with the identity of the person behind the keyboard, unknown, because s/he masked her/himself up! Illustration from online
So, this is on how the online environment, is getting worse, see how FAST the rumors, the HATE spread, and, on the subject of sexuality on the boxing rings (as that was, the starting point of all of this!), and everybody has an opinions, and we all feel the need to VOICE our thoughts out loud, and we do NOT care who we offend, we just want our words to get, expressed, because this world shifted toward, the focus on the individual, and we forget, that we are all, connected, we share this, one environment, the planet, we can't live anywhere ELSE, and because of how easily upset we all are, about things that hit that most tender part inside of our minds, we feel the need, to punch BACK, and that is why, this world is a mess!
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