This week’s #WeirdandGud is a warning label for those who flippantly wield an ancient weapon — ostracism.
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No surprise here: humans have been canceling each other for eternity. We have built-in cancellation threat receptors.
Social rejection meant death for most of history, so your brain still treats it as such.
Ostracizing truly dangerous people from a community is a means of survival.
Ostracizing people who’s differences we simply perceive as a threat is veiled conformity.
While acquiescing to our tribe of 50 people to avoid rejection was reasonable, pleasing the billions we’re connected to online is a suicide mission.
We still relish in using our ancient weapon of ostracism, but in a tribe of billions, there’s always someone to punish.
Outdated tools are too blunt for careless use in a modern world.
Knowing ostracism has been used since the dawn of humans and stirs a primal dread in us even today,
threatening every offense with a social death sentence might make you the real threat.
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