Created on 2018-10-07 20:22
Published on 2018-10-07 20:55
This article is simple here on LinkedIn. It's a top tier foundation intersection to concepts of science approaches to knowing the statement made here in this title is found by understanding these two referenced articles.
The first article reflects social media, technology, and the erosion of trust [ as I claim ] by disunity caused by social media platforms and what is happening to our mental health and lack of wellness by technology addiction. Our society is being hijacked by technology.
http://humanetech.com/problem/I quote from this page:
There's an invisible problem that's affecting all of society.
How this effects one aspect of truth and trust is found here:
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As it is most apparent here on LinkedIn, the social media platform mirrors much like Facebook. That is a fact that can't be denied here. So when we speak about the cause and effect of Facebook the social media platform, in essence any platform that the root based structurally the same design model has the same consequences of erosion of society.
Quoting again from the Humane Tech Problem Page:
Facebook segregates us into echo chambers, fragmenting our communities.
Technology platforms make it easier than ever for bad actors to cause havoc:
Meanwhile, the platform companies profit from growth in users and activity.
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When these bad actors are confronted with the truth of their actions either offline or online --- In online forums, either publicly or privately, they use the BLOCK feature to isolate them from their deeds of truth. If the truth is written on their timeline or feed, the comments from the confronting author is removed. Unable to be retrieved back by the Author, and the statements become null and void of attempting to fix that weighty truth.
Blocking should be mandated to be illegal on social media platforms in the construct that is it allowing bad actors to engage in hostile acts of social destruction with a overpowering of the confronted truth. This is distrurbing or mental health wellness, trust, and acceptance of real truth much greater than we want to know. Because on the flipside, is the technology addictive consideration of distraction to the underlying truth and we can't seem to uproot to a higher level outlook. This is evil at it's worst invention.
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This invisibility is why the next part of this equation is being so hard to comprehend a solution. The mass gun shootings epidemic and seemingly random murder crime in the country of the United States of America. The problem will get worse before it gets better if we do not do something quick.
In October of 2017, An article appeared in the Washington Post that mirrors collective the broad scientific social science research on this subject that started in and around the year 2000. The evidence is much greater proved by knowing this fact by underlying your belief structure with science. But there are those who would be science deniers. We can't go that direction of denying these facts.
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Washington Post --> Outlook Perspective
----> Full Article On YouTube In Spoken Voice Text Narrative Presentation. Part of a larger playlist themed Erosion of Trust.
By Randolph Roth
Randolph Roth is a professor of history and sociology at Ohio State University and the author of “American Homicide.”
October 6, 2017
Excerpt Citation:
But while we all know from experience that shootings can lead to faltering trust, the reverse appears to be true as well. My research has found that declining trust in our institutions, our social structures and one another leads to more lethal violence, including mass murder. As abstract as these sentiments may seem, they predispose certain people to kill. In fact, they explain homicide rates better than any other factor, including unemployment, guns, drugs or a permissive justice system.
When we lose faith in our government and political leaders, when we lack a sense of kinship with others, when we feel we just can't get a fair shake, it affects the confidence with which we go about our lives. Small disagreements, indignities and disappointments that we might otherwise brush off may enrage us — generating hostile, defensive and predatory emotions — and in some cases give way to violence. This may be rooted in our biology. Primate studies have shown that apes and monkeys secrete more of the hormones that cause or facilitate aggression, and less of the hormones that deter aggression, when their tribes experience political instability, faction fighting and struggles for dominance.
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The invisibility factor once again is showing itself in the citation quote:
"abstract as these sentiments may seem,"
Are we going to do something about this problem or not?