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Our civilization and culture is increasingly based on hate.
Like I was reminded of the different communities for the "Rings of Power" show today, like three different subreddits seemingly dedicated to hating it, and one with a neutral stance just to enjoy the show: What an Embarrassment : lordoftherings - Their goofy hair is endearing to me : LOTR_on_Prime
With a majority of people loudly hating on the show "Rings of Power" you'd think the show was bad, but the majority of reviews for each episode is very high. People like the show. But search online, you basically are forced into hate content.
And "Hype" is an important part to enjoy a medium. If you read some book and everyone is excited about it, it adds to the fun. But if everyone at school is like "oh what a shitty book Lord of the Rings is, only nerds and morons read that! Total low effort garbage!" then that reduces your enjoyment.
But besides the racism because of the black dwarf and elf there is a cottage industry for hate bandwagoning today. It's profitable to constantly shit on things. Easy and cheap content. And people enjoy hating, they kind of learned to let themselves hate anything. Hate memes are the most virulent memes compared to "wonder" or "cute".
You can see the same social mechanisms at play with the Israeli hate on Palestinians, the left hate on Israeli, and the hate for Russia. The fascists hate on liberals and the liberals hate on fascists. Facts or logical arguments do not matter. Our (western) civilization is quickly degenerating.
Social media in the current has been one of the worst influences on a civilization that could be imagined. And it does not just have to do with profit and money, you can see the same mechanisms once learned are imported into lemmy as well.