Peter Limberg über Digitalen Tribalismus (8 von 8)

Outrage porn is the supernormal stimulus of the culture war.

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Peter Limberg über Digitalen Tribalismus (7 von 8)

In the interest of appeasing shareholders, large social media companies battle over the attention economy, reducing our agency and turning us into memetic addicts along the way.

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Peter Limberg über Digitalen Tribalismus (6 von 8)

[…] adaptive instincts turn maladaptive due to exposure to supernormal stimuli; magnified and more attractive versions of evolved stimuli. Nikolaas Tinbergen, the ethologist who coined the term supernormal stimuli, demonstrated that he could trick birds, fish, and insects into evolutionary traps using exaggerated dummy objects designed to trigger their instincts. […] psychologist Deirdre Barrett points out that humans are just as fallible to these superstimuli. Whether it be junk food, laugh tracks, pornography, or likes on social media, these artificial triggers addict us and hijack our agency.

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Peter Limberg über Digitalen Tribalismus (5 von 8)

Collective understanding problems of what reality is amplify collective action problems of what reality should be.

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Peter Limberg über Digitalen Tribalismus (4 von 8)

This society-wide secularization has given rise to the meaning crisis, which we define as a meaning famine where numerous contenders are competing to satiate our meaning hunger.

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Peter Limberg über Digitalen Tribalismus (3 von 8)

We define a culture war as a memetic war to determine what the social facts are at the core of a given society, or alternatively, to determine society’s boundaries of the sacred and the profane.

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Peter Limberg über Digitalen Tribalismus (2 von 8)

All across the political spectrum, people are cloistering into tribes and defining themselves against the tribes that are most similar to them.

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