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Comment by lagrange77 | Hacker News Reader

Back in the day, i was naively hoping, that the internet had a similar effect on man.

They're opposites: one's being far removed from humans, one's seeing too much of them at once. Try building a 50k-capacity orbital hotel for instagram tourists, and see what happens to this #OverviewEffect.

> They're opposites: one's being far removed from humans, one's seeing too much of them at once.

I get your point. What i meant was, the internet empowering mankind to communicate in 'real-time', transparent to man made concepts like borders and countries. I was hoping that this 'wormhole' would strengthen the sense of a global community.

I feel that it has created a global community, but few seem to recognize it.

Social media has caused a lot of people to shift their world views, and re-examine their identities. Not necessarily in ways that benefit themselves or society.

The insinuation/assumption that social media somehow had an obvious negative effect on people's beliefs world wide compared to the past. A statement in the form of a post on HN social media and an often propagated popular opinion on other social media. An opinion thay I completely disagree with, discussed/questioned on this same social media. Freely.

How meta. How ironic.

Sometimes I think people need to be reminded that humanity is, in fact, awesome.

Nobel winning literature is the best means I've found to trigger some form of enlightenment / global human and other life empathy.

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