Technology and Anthropology

€uroMeinke · 12-19-2006, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Technology has definitely made it easier to avoid being challenged in our beliefs. I think we all suffer a bit from that.

I'm still not so sure of that - in the past you just moved to like minded communities, whether that be a state of the right color, or a religious group you associated with. There aren't that many social groups we enter into without some sort of selective choice. Even when born into a community you disagree with, there are always the subcultured "liekminded" rebels.

Alex · 12-19-2006, 04:24 PM

Yes, but except for the few groups that did (try to) isolate themselves they still lived most of their daily social lives within a larger community of some sort. And even if there is a self-selected sameness it was much harder to filter out "intrustions." There were also fewer filters of the world out there so for the most part everybody had to work with the same filters and then pervert them to their own ideas. No you can just go out and find the filter that fits you perfectly and never even think, just parrot.

To a large extent I think we may be swapping physical homogeneity with intellectual/emotional homogeneity.

12-19-2006, 04:24 PM	#2
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Yes, but except for the few groups that did (try to) isolate themselves they still lived most of their daily social lives within a larger community of some sort. And even if there is a self-selected sameness it was much harder to filter out "intrustions." There were also fewer filters of the world out there so for the most part everybody had to work with the same filters and then pervert them to their own ideas. No you can just go out and find the filter that fits you perfectly and never even think, just parrot. To a large extent I think we may be swapping physical homogeneity with intellectual/emotional homogeneity.
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