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RE: Nonviolent Censorship is how Nonviolent Societies create Nonviolent Government
Excellent post.
The difficulty I have is that peer pressure usually operates in a pseudo pyramid. There are a few top influencers who influence a greater number of people who then influence a greatre number of people.
Inevitably, those at the top of the influence pyramid can be coerced/bribed. Then the peer pressure becomes essentially statist again.
Yeah, you really do have to convince people that thinking for themselves, while hard, is still a worthwhile thing.
We may actually need to upgrade our critical thinking skills in order to fix that. Humans are just sort of "herd wired" for some reason.
I think it isn't about people's ability to think, but more about scalability.
Everyone is able to learn how to program, but most choose to trust others with their security because they do not have the capacity to program and learn how to weld. Specialization and cooperation required to operate a complex market economy demand we trust the opinions of others the vast majority of the time.
But we aren't asking people to learn to program. We're asking them to learn to think critically.
This isn't a complex market we're talking about here. It's people's interpersonal problems becoming a problem for the entire site.
When an outsider comes here and they see the blow ups and flagging wars that are erupting, what they see is that we don't know how to control ourselves.
This is why I'm advocating a different approach. Instead of this social pyramid of a few core key influencers, it really should be mono y mono. People working out their differences on their own. Part of that involves taking away the tools that they can use to harm others and putting them on a position where they are looking at eachother across a table and sorting out their own differences.
That may require mediation, but once you begin to force that then you open up a new can of worms. It is to my mind, far better to just as a community, send a message "quit being a jerks and find a way to get along".
Mute button works remarkably well for this. Perhaps with the addition that if muted a person cannot make a reply or comment that the other party will ever see.
You think I am talking about this site, when I am talking about general social structure of the general population.
replying over here due to comment depth limits.
Yes I think you're talking about the site. And if you're not, then I am.
If we're talking about different things then I apologize. Take everything I said as "in the context of steem & steemit". And I'll just back away because I feel like an idiot now ;)
My apologies.