It's not new, it has ever been thus. Some people in every generation grow out of it (or learn better the hard way) sometime between the ages of 20 and 30, most never do.
That said, social media HAS contributed to making it worse, by rewarding sociopathic and narcissistic behavior exponentially more than real life ever has.
Many people seem not to have a vocabulary that extends beyond, "Like". Until recently, I just thought it was a place filler for the speaker to think of what they really want to say, however I generally do not see it followed by reasoned articulation. I now see it as a potential invitation for the listener to make up what they think goes in the "like" place keeper. Or, to fill in with whatever emotion strikes their, you know, like, fancy.
In other words, many folk lack the tools to either articulate an argument or understand one. (Or identify whatever fallacy is being thrown their way. )
"In the brain of an anti-conceptual person, the process of integration is largely replaced by a process of association. What his subconscious stores and automatizes is not ideas, but an indiscriminate accumulation of sundry concretes, random facts, and unidentified feelings, piled into unlabeled mental file folders. This works up to a certain point - i.e., so long as such a person deals with other persons whose folders are stuffed similarly, and thus no search through the entire filing system is ever required. Within such limits, the person can be active and willing to work hard...
A person of this mentality may uphold some abstract principles or profess some intellectual convictions (without remembering where or how he picked them up). But if one asks him what he means by a given idea, he will not be able to answer. If one asks him the reasons of his convictions, one will discover that they are a thin, fragile film floating over a vacuum, like an oil slick in empty space - and one will be shocked by the number of questions it had never occurred to him to ask.
This kind of psycho-epistimology works so long as no part of it is challenged. But all hell breaks loose when it is - because what is threatened is not a particular idea, but that mind's whole structure. The hell ranges from fear to resentment to stubborn evasion to hostility to panic to malice to hatred. "
Emotion can run thrice 'round the world before Logic gets its boots on.
It's not new, it has ever been thus. Some people in every generation grow out of it (or learn better the hard way) sometime between the ages of 20 and 30, most never do.
That said, social media HAS contributed to making it worse, by rewarding sociopathic and narcissistic behavior exponentially more than real life ever has.
I’ll donate for the dog food! :-)
Many people seem not to have a vocabulary that extends beyond, "Like". Until recently, I just thought it was a place filler for the speaker to think of what they really want to say, however I generally do not see it followed by reasoned articulation. I now see it as a potential invitation for the listener to make up what they think goes in the "like" place keeper. Or, to fill in with whatever emotion strikes their, you know, like, fancy.
In other words, many folk lack the tools to either articulate an argument or understand one. (Or identify whatever fallacy is being thrown their way. )
"In the brain of an anti-conceptual person, the process of integration is largely replaced by a process of association. What his subconscious stores and automatizes is not ideas, but an indiscriminate accumulation of sundry concretes, random facts, and unidentified feelings, piled into unlabeled mental file folders. This works up to a certain point - i.e., so long as such a person deals with other persons whose folders are stuffed similarly, and thus no search through the entire filing system is ever required. Within such limits, the person can be active and willing to work hard...
A person of this mentality may uphold some abstract principles or profess some intellectual convictions (without remembering where or how he picked them up). But if one asks him what he means by a given idea, he will not be able to answer. If one asks him the reasons of his convictions, one will discover that they are a thin, fragile film floating over a vacuum, like an oil slick in empty space - and one will be shocked by the number of questions it had never occurred to him to ask.
This kind of psycho-epistimology works so long as no part of it is challenged. But all hell breaks loose when it is - because what is threatened is not a particular idea, but that mind's whole structure. The hell ranges from fear to resentment to stubborn evasion to hostility to panic to malice to hatred. "
—Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Newsletter 1973
Nah, just hook the correction button to electrodes attached to tender places.
I both have and do like the way YOU think!