Are We Entering An Endless Cycle Of Irrelevant Stupidity?

[sp1814]

The Internet is a great place for exchanging views, and challenging viewpoints...but have we entered a period where we now have two tribes - one waiting to be offended by something, and the other waiting for the first to be offended to condemn them for being offended?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-condemns-twitter-as-stalking-ground-for-the-sanctimoniously-self-righteous-after-a6875506.html

Is this the future? Do we no longer really care about the issue, but are more interested in sharing how offended we are on the 'rainbow of outrage'?

What's your take on this?

[Togo]

Mr Angry doesn't give a.............

[sp1814]

Jackdaw33

Okay - thanks for that, but rather than simply having a pop at me, why not share your thoughts?

When you write posts like that, it tempts the people you're referring to to attack you back - and that's not good is it fella?

[Jackdaw33]

/ getting on their high horse on behalf of someone who isn't even in the paddock!\

Double LOL. Where do you get these phrases from, sp?

[agchristie]

> So these Twitterati are getting on their high horse on behalf of someone who isn't even in the paddock!

Yep, all is never quite what it seems...

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Jackdaw33

I think they're all metaphors.

[Zacs-Master]

Sp, you're question seems to describe Answerbank perfectly.

[Zacs-Master]

No black or white either. Argue that one;-)

[Retrochic]

if you disagree with someone you are being 'inflammatory'

if you make reference to a previous Tweet or post you are a 'stalker'

if you refuse to massage the ego's of the more popular contributors you are being intentionally abrasive

if you can't withstand the above then don't do Social Media ( including AB)

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divebuddy

I think literally no one is bothered by that. Especially seeing as what the colours of the rainbow now represent.

[agchristie]

"My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right".

Desmond Tutu

[Retrochic]

I won't -I'll be tossing and turning all night wondering what the colours mean, its an outrage!

[Zacs-Master]

Just so I can follow this thread; is the 'irrelevant stupidity' the rainbow? And just who's being offended?

[Togo]

//Are We Entering An Endless Cycle Of Irrelevant Stupidity?//

I thought we did that years ago.

[Zacs-Master]

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. So the colours of the rainbow are for different Angels eh?

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agchristie

I met Desmond Tutu once at a church in Aldgate when I used to work up there. Lovely man.

And tiny.

[Retrochic]

but divebuddy -there is no 'pink' rainbow angel -the angel of empty closets

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Zacs-Master

No...the rainbow is a conversational detour.

It's my thing on AB.