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Solid video and it reminds me of So You've Been Publicly Shamed book.
I had a few conversations with a some people who wanted some random Dean fired for an insensitive remark. I told them nobody would care in a week but they told me this won't ever go away. I waited 7 days. Nothing new on reddit for 3 days and I sent a reply to that person, asking them if they still cared and they didn't reply to my comment.
You get this hot mass of hate and then the Internet moves on while the damage is already done. This is particularly true if you had real world consequences - you're fired, your name (picture/video) is now forever online and presuming you'll have a job in the future, this will now be a detriment going forward. Some kill themselves and those are the reported suicides.
The question is when will public shaming change from a more righteous movement to point out when someone has done something atrocious and when it turns into harassment and bullying. So far, the Internet errs on bullying due to diffusion of responsibility and there's no leader to say "halt, that's enough".
If you verbatim read what he wrote, you plagiarized.
This could ruin your Youtube career, and deservedly so. Plagiarism isn't something to be joked about. Best course of action: acknowledge what you've done, write an explanation which demonstrates that you know why what you did was wrong, and apologize. I also advise that no matter how much you try to justify this to yourself, you make no excuses whatsoever for what you did. Doing so will only make this incident worse.
And make a genuine attempt at publicly answering this question: why the hell did you feel the need to plagiarize at all?
FYI, here's a good book for you right now.
Edit: For some reason I wrote "what we wrote" instead of "what he wrote". Fixed.
While I think some things, like racism, should be called out, I also think that we are (myself included) very quick to judge and throw stones.
This topic reminded me of a book I’ve been meaning to check out — So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed . I think if you enjoyed the podcast, you might like the book as well.
It's not exactly the same thing, but I feel like this phenomenon is related to the one discussed in Jon Ronson's book <em>So You've Been Publicly Shamed</em>. I think it's a real problem of our age, and it seems like the amount of damage it is causing -- not just on the personal level for those people who've had the internet hate machine pointed at them, but for its chilling effect on discourse in general -- is underappreciated, or at least under-discussed.
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I don't think most people would have chosen to live in a world where a single mistaken comment online or the expression of a "bad" opinion can lead to loss of employment, social ostracism, and death threats. Yet here we are. It feels somewhat like a Malthusian trap of the comments section.
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Edit: Disclaimer, that book is a pretty stressful read. At least, it was for me. Don't get me wrong, I think it's important and well executed, but the subject matter is stressful.
Recommended reading: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds MacKay, 1851. One of the best books ever written. Goes through several historical examples of society losing its collective mind. Interesting fact is that the Salem Witch trials were the tip of the iceberg vs what was going on in Europe.
https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds/dp/1463740514
Matt doesn't need to read every single comment everywhere for this to be an issue. Say when there's a podcast, there's 100 comments. Matt could only read 20 and still see some about him not being there. And those comments can range from soft and constructive to somewhat shitty and outright asshole.
And yeah he could have give normal responses. A lot of the time, he has given them. 'I'm at this con.' 'I'm dealing with a business emergency.' 'I'm on a family vaction.' But sometimes people don't see those normal responses or don't care and still throw things his way.
So again. We don't see what Matt's seeing. We may look in a Reddit thread and see A shitty comment and ignore it. But Matt, who has to pay attention to all forms of feedback as part of his job. He'll see that one shitty comment and it's proably the 12th he's seen and say 'there's not that much today.'
EDIT: If you are still not sure what my point is, read this. It's about when people are mad at you on social media. Not a perfect comparison as the examples are extreame, but gives some insight.
On a related not. If this fake story gets a rise out of you; positive, negative, funny, sad. Read this Book, So You've been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson.
It pretty much goes through the mechanisms and aftermath of the whole, 'Tweet that will ruin his life' part. It's not pretty for anyone involved. Also the other Ronson books are real good.
It's on audible, so yous your podcast promo codes and save some trees.
Your old boss was right and if you're interested in reading about this topic more I would highly recommend reading The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. There's a lot of fascinating info in this book about psychopaths and how they operate and there is a section that talks about the fact that there is a higher rate of psychopaths among CEO's compared to the general public. Unfortunately, in business it does tend to be beneficial to only care about yourself and what you can gain and to not have any qualms about screwing people over to benefit yourself and the company.
True—for such a soft-spoken First Lady, Melania’s fashion choices speak volumes... from her pussy-bow blouse (worn just days after her husband’s “grab em” comments) to her continued support of problematic designers like Dolce & Gabbana. Like it or not, fashion is political: Madeleine Albright and her pins, Balenciaga and its Bernie-inspired collection, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her gold hoops, the list goes on. For a woman whose closet consists of luxury labels like Chanel and Gucci, wearing a $39 “I really don’t care” Zara jacket is a deliberate choice that sends a very clear message.
Re performative outrage: Jon Ronson wrote a fascinating book called So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, which explores the online phenomenon of public shaming and evaluates the culture of outrage that society has cultivated. It’s interesting and sad how performative outrage can so easily ruin an individual’s career and social standing but have no lasting impact on a company or brand.
There’s an interesting book on the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/1594487138/
The author tracked down and interviewed a number of the people who had their bad behavior go viral, such as the PR director who was getting on a flight and tweeted the terrible joke about not getting AIDS in South Africa because she’s white. In most of the cases, the subjects didn’t rebound and get their lives back on track. Except maybe one dude who had no shame to begin with.
>It's hard to dig up information on people like her (again, because she's a nobody) but from what I could find her career is doing the same as it was before the hate mob.
She was covered and interviewed in Jon Ronson's book on public shaming. At least as of that time, years later, her life definitely had not returned to its previous state or quality.
Yup. I have deleted posts made in public where I was 100% correct/truthful/moral because the pitchforks were coming out and the effects threatened to become overwhelming. Even if 80% of the people agree with you, once a social media mob starts to form if even 0.001% of the remaining 20% decide to try to ruin your life via bedbugging or harassment or whatever, that's enough to have a real potential impact. If you have a family, a career, a life to protect, you will often prioritize being spared the effects of the mob over proclaiming your veracity/correctness/innocence. In my case, I deleted some tweets, turtled my social and took a contentious political argument with @Popehat to a private channel, even though there was no doubt my position was both correct and well-defended. I just couldn't endure the onslaught of idiot strangers coming out of the woodwork.
Deleting and turtling and being more private is evidence of nothing more than good sense and yields no clue as to who might be correct, incorrect, guilty, or innocent. It's just evidence that we live in a troubling and sometimes terrifying era of a kind of mass social censorship where no matter what you say, if the wrong people find it and decide to attack you, virtually everyone is vulnerable to mass public shaming on a previously unimaginable scale.
Everyone in social conflicts that happen in full public view should probably keep this dynamic in mind.
If you've read The Psychopath Test by Jonathan Ronson, he comes to that very conclusion and it's a fascinating book. https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Test-Journey-Through-Industry/dp/1594485755
Hearstian Yellow Journalism. Plus
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madnesses of Crowds." MacKay 1841.
https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds/dp/1463740514
There are tons of incredibly successful, amazing people who have autism. Authors, actors, scientists, musicians, and the list goes on. I recently read a book called "Neurotribes" that explained autism very well. I'd highly recommend it.
After Majority Rule aired, numerous tweeters called it a "ripoff" of Black Mirror's "Nosedive". However, on Majority Rule's airdate, MacFarlane had tweeted that he wrote the script "a year and half" before. That would mean he wrote it several months before Nosedive aired. – The aforementioned 2014 Community episode obviously predates both (and as that commenter said, "it's an often repeated concept"). – But the source of inspiration that MacFarlane cited was Jon Ronson's 2016 book So You've Been Publicly Shamed.
From The Orville Fandom Wiki:
> ... [Seth wrote the script] in mid-2016 ... [after reading a book titled] <em>So You've Been Publicly Shamed</em>, by author Jon Ronson....
> Specifically, MacFarlane has cited the case of Justine Sacco in reference to writing the episode, a South African woman whose tweets intending to parody a racist American were taken as serious by Gawker and other media sources. A public online shaming campaign ignored her explanation and resulted in enormous worldwide backlash, and she lost her job. A Gawker blogger later apologized, admitting he stoked public ire to generate ad revenue.
> .
> At the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con, MacFarlane reflected:
>> "We wrote that episode the summer of - I don't know, was it two years ago? - and we thought we were all innovative, and five months later the Black Mirror episode ["Nosedive"] comes out, and we're like, 'Shit, everyone's going to think we're-'" [laughter]. "But it's clearly a common concern given the fact that two shows touched on this independently.
>> "Look, it's incredibly creepy. I think there are good things about social media and Twitter. We've seen a speediness of acceptance for certain marginalized groups that I think without the unification of social media would have taken a lot longer. That's the positive side of social media. The downside is that it can become a mob very quickly.
>> "I think it's very creepy. We're not evolved enough as a species not to succumb to the rush of joining a group that is ganging up on another group or individual. There's a weird rush that gives a lot of people when they become part of a mob. It's too soon to independently govern ourselves in the way that social media attempts to do so."
From the Fandom Wiki:
> ... The script was written entirely by creator Seth MacFarlane in mid-2016 ... [after reading a book titled] <em>So You've Been Publicly Shamed</em>, by author Jon Ronson....
> Specifically, MacFarlane has cited the case of Justine Sacco in reference to writing the episode, a South African woman whose tweets intending to parody a racist American were taken as serious by Gawker and other media sources. A public online shaming campaign ignored her explanation and resulted in enormous worldwide backlash, and she lost her job. A Gawker blogger later apologized, admitting he stoked public ire to generate ad revenue.
> At the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con, MacFarlane reflected:
>> "We wrote that episode the summer of - I don't know, was it two years ago? - and we thought we were all innovative, and five months later the Black Mirror episode ["Nosedive"] comes out, and we're like, 'Shit, everyone's going to think we're-' [laughter]. But it's clearly a common concern given the fact that two shows touched on this independently.
>> "Look, it's incredibly creepy. I think there are good things about social media and Twitter. We've seen a speediness of acceptance for certain marginalized groups that I think without the unification of social media would have taken a lot longer. That's the positive side of social media. The downside is that it can become a mob very quickly.
>> *"I think it's very creepy. We're not evolved enough as a species not to succumb to the rush of joining a group that is ganging up on another group or individual. There's a weird rush that gives a lot of people when they become part of a mob. It's too soon to independently govern ourselves in the way that social media attempts to do so."
> "Majority Rule"
Trivia notes:
In the days after "Majority Rule" aired, numerous people tweeted accusations of a "ripoff" from Black Mirror's "Nosedive" — but, on Majority Rule's airdate, MacFarlane had noted that he'd written it (with inspiration from a book) "a year and a half" before it aired. – That's several months before Nosedive aired.
Because both Majority Rule and Nosedive have also been compared to a 2014 Community episode, "App Development and Condiments", Wikipedia mentions both Majority Rule and Nosedive in the "See also" section of its article about that Community episode.
No applied experience in IO/HR, sadly!
But, a useful popular press introduction to the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Neurotribes-Legacy-Autism-Future-Neurodiversity/dp/0399185615
I am not a fan of Musk.
Nothing to do with PJ, but if you are interested in the topic there's a great book called So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson, another podcaster and This American Life alum.
NeuroTribes talks about how the DSM was written by a bunch of white Protestant dudes who were describing people left in their care. So it is not surprising that it does not have much culture context.
Good idea.
I think if you're looking into shame you'll get a heck of a lot out out of reading this brilliant book. If you don't know Jon Ronson he's an investigative journalist, author and film maker and he has a fabulous writing style as well as a way of getting people to really open up.
https://www.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/1594634017
Trivia note (just for info):
Numerous viewers accused "Majority Rule" of ripping off Nosedive. However, in a (now deleted) tweet on the episode's airdate, Seth noted that he'd written Majority Rule "a year and a half" before it aired (so, he wrote it before Nosedive aired), inspired by a book. — The 2014 Community episode ("App Development and Condiments") obviously predates both Majority Rule and Nosedive.
"Trivia note" (just for info):
Numerous viewers accused "Majority Rule" of ripping off Nosedive. However, in a (now deleted) tweet on the episode's airdate, Seth noted that he'd written Majority Rule "a year and a half" before it aired (so, he wrote it before Nosedive aired), inspired by a book. — The 2014 Community episode ("App Development and obviously predates both Majority Rule and Nosedive.
Hi, You linked NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, but there's also NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently, with an equivalent description but different price (and different title, of course).
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness by definition and was only removed for political reasons. Given that you're read up on DSM I'd at least presume you know this.
This reminds me of a book by Ian Stevenson, Twenty Cases of Reincarnation. I've read, in that book, and some other places, stories like the one presented here.
Apparently, this is the way it's remembered by some. They exit the body, but hang around near objects in the physical plane, and take rebirth nearby. Children under 5 are most likely to remember these things.
Ian Stevenson's Wikipedia page links to a lot more of his work. It's pretty amazing.
Thanks for sharing!
Whilst I agree with what your saying, I think it’s been amplified up to a very noticeable degree. People now a days will doxx and try to ruin a persons life. Look no further than the pr girl that made the hiv joke right before she got on a flight. By the time she landed, she was fired and basically had her life ruined by Twitter.