Alright, so this is going to simply be my understanding of current changing culture as a total layman in any fields of study that would even remotely touch these topics.
What are you talkin about now Genn? Are you just losing your mind again? Did you already lose your mind? The answer is yes to the latter, but that is not important right now.
Genn.... did you drink with Jayburner again? I have no comment to this.
What I want to talk about is how the internet is changing reality in terms of social dynamics that we experience everyday.
Before the internet, when people spoke to one another, it was generally face to face interactions. Obviously letters to be delivered have been with us for centuries, and the phone has been with us for over 100 years now.
When people spoke face to face, people would speak in a manner they generally wouldn't if it was a total stranger.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde
This led to complex social attitudes about social interaction, from dress (wearing a suit to certain events), how to address someone (Mr. Mrs. Ms. Sir, Kiddo, Prick, You total bitch lol), and how to speak. (Formally, informally, in quick bites of information, slowly, repetitively, etc). You will be one way with strangers, but a totally different way around friends and family.
This is generally how societies throughout history governed.... until just a few decades ago. The change was the computer as we know it, and later the internet.
The internet is not a place of face to face transactions. The internet as we know is basically anonymous. In real life I am a simple individual who is called by his name, but on the internet I am referred to as various other names. To many on the internet I am someone who is just a name, with some text next it. Much like what you are reading now.
I am sure all of you know what I am talking about. We are all free to openly speak without the rigid social constructions of regular society on forums like this, sites like 4chan, sites like reddit, and other similar places.
Many of us are used to these rules... or rather, lack of rules. We heard all the insults that come with it, heard all those people claim how jacked they are in RL, and everything in between when talking online. But, what is the issue Genn? What are you blabbing about?
The issue is social media. Social media, Twitter, FB, Linkedin, and more, are internet entities, with the format we are all used to, but with real life rules of social conduct forced upon them.
Sure, before when you would say things like "fuck white people", "fuck niggers", "Goddam goat fuckers", "here is what I really think we should do....", "Here is who I support", online, you were behind a vale of anonymity. But people are naturally bringing this mentality to social media, a place of face to face interactions, where people can see you. If they can see you, they can think more highly of what you say, they can be indifferent, or they can think of you as lesser. Social media is also huge, thousands of people can see what you say, and be inspired by, or repulsed by you. You will be under scrutiny, and now if you even walk near a person in regular life, they will remember what you said.
I think thats this is at the heart of some social unrest we have now. We have two conflicting rule sets governing society. Not legal rules, but social rules, rules not enforced necessarily by law, but instead by social stigma.