A good explanation of what's wrong with society. Also the people of Createblog., Shamelessly stolen from another forum. Options

[heyo-captain-jac...]

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=749620

"Common sense" is the word we give to common past experiences and taught information we expect others and ourselves to have. It is a body of knowledge we refer back to in order to face new problems.

However, common sense has its limitations. Common sense is only reliable as long as it is frequently checked against reality. When reality does not agree with common sense, common sense is changed and updated to better fit reality.

Unfortunately, common sense can be abused and stray further and further from reality than we would like it to.



In far too many cases, the cycle of checking "common sense" against "reality" has been broken, and turned into a cycle of "common sense" reinforcing "common sense". People with the same misinformed view are reinforcing other similarly misinformed views allowing flawed perspectives to spread faster and more effectively than more accurate ones.

While this kind of abused common sense has always existed, its impact has recently been made far more obvious as a side effect of advancing information and communications technology.

Perhaps the some of the best examples of the abuse of common sense can be found in the vast majority of opinions found on the Internet.

The Internet has allowed for the abuse of common sense to occur at a scale never before possible. The ease of communication between people has made checking ones own opinion against the opinions of others far easier and convenient than checking them against more solid connections to reality. Again, with people with misinformed perspectives reinforcing the perspectives of others who are similarly misinformed, except now the cycle takes place at a much more rapid rate.

It's an invisible and recursive game of telephone played on an unprecedented scale that has extended itself far beyond the media. Such is one of the unfortunate side effect of technology advancing more quickly than people. It is the result of people gaining access to new forms of information faster than they learn how to interpret and use them.

Even worse is that the increased rate at which the cycle occurs fuels the arrogance behind the opinions in question, often making misinformed opinions seem more solid than those closer to reality.




Or perhaps simpler explanation:

I'm talking about how common sense can become skewed because people check it against other people's common sense rather than checking it against reality. Because of the convenience of the Internet, people would rather check their opinions against the opinions of others rather than check them against sources closer to reality. This causes uninformed opinions to spread much easier than ones that are better informed. Eventually these mere opinions become common sense, becoming even more difficult to correct.

I don't know how to make it any simpler with that without further crippling it, if you still can't understand it then I don't know what else I can do.

tl;dr, opinions should be checked against reality, not by someone else's opinion.

[none345678]

Well then you must be getting pretty full Tama.

[karmakiller]

Well then you must be getting pretty full Tama.

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