01-07-2021, 01:12 AM
As I understand it through the lens of dialectical materialism, the synthesis is the world ushered in through the conflict of a thesis and antithesis. It's a natural process of history that captures change, not something that Marx invented. Naturally, humans change and are always in motion in every sense of the word, like everything else in nature. We're not special.
There's a lot of nuance missing here, and I think I can display this most effectively and without a bias of political ideology on your comment about social media breeding anti-social behavior. It's true, but it also connects people from halfway around the world and tunes people into each other's struggles. Like everything, it's just a matter of how it's used. If it's used to be constantly ironic and reactionary behind an avatar, then, yes, social media can be alienating.
There's a lot of nuance missing here, and I think I can display this most effectively and without a bias of political ideology on your comment about social media breeding anti-social behavior. It's true, but it also connects people from halfway around the world and tunes people into each other's struggles. Like everything, it's just a matter of how it's used. If it's used to be constantly ironic and reactionary behind an avatar, then, yes, social media can be alienating.