Now I can not help but updating : saying too much in too few words

[oakfarm]

I haven't really had time with dreamwidth but now I have one thing I can’t help writing about. You remember I mention a woman I remembered from high school. Since this after all is a small country I saw a new thing about her. She has written a debate article that she and her organisation are ready to give their help, using among other things their experience as Afro-Swedes (their words) to prevent youth in immigration neighbourhoods (my words) from being radicalized. Well that’s a nice thought, that an Afro-Swedish woman can do more against terrorism than a soldier in some glamorized special force and whose interests are waterboarding and blowing things up, ever can do. (Maybe the one doing most against terrorism are boring bureaucrats whose job it is to “turn off the money flow” to terrorist organisations.)

Anyway, I know I shouldn’t think or write about extremism, integration, terrorism, racism, crime ... almost everything that has to do with society, since I tend to lose propations. That’s my problem or perhaps it’s a society problem. Don’t they more or less say that Silicon Valley's algorithmes makes us lose proportions? Since angry, misinformed, people who have lost all proportions will klick much more links than happy people will do. Also, with the info about the woman I have mention here, one could likely find her. Is that a problem? Or is it losing proportions to think that’s a problem?

Comments

[wantedonvoyage]

The article is published, she wants people to read it. Unfortunately none of these problems will be solved without people putting themselves at some risk.

And I think you are right about the clicks. Some of the happiest people I know don't use or largely ignore social media.

[oakfarm]

Lots of work. Yeah, it’s talk about social media making us addicted and unhappy.

I saw you had problems with getting notifications about comments. Hope you get this.