Everybody privately shit-talks everybody. The phone always listens to it and records it. A viral hack that turns all this shit-talking into texts. Everybody in the world suddenly gets a thousand shit-talking texts from their family, friends and associates. Society dissolves.
I think it’s quite plausible actually. Implicit to the present state of things. It’s just a nice hack away.
At least an entertaining subject for speculation.
But no, you people found a way to find it threatening. You people do that a lot.
IDK about the rest, but I don’t find it threatening specifically because your first assumption was false.
I don’t shit-talk people, so in your scenario, everyone just gets texts about how I talk them up to others? So suddenly I’m more liked than ever, because suddenly I’m one of the few who isn’t an asshole just because I can get away with it, and now everyone knows that… Big whoop.
Is that the kind of discussion you wanted?
On a more serious note, if your scenario actually occurred, I think most people would just shrug and move on. If it happened to just one person, they might be ostracized… But if it’s everyone, people are more likely to just forgive and forget because everyone had their “private” thoughts exposed.
Sure, some relationships might be irreparably destroyed… But others might be stronger than ever. Life-shattering social drama happen all the time. But at the end of the day… Everyone still needs to go to work so they can eat and have a home, and companies will still need employees to get shit done.
I don’t think it would be too different just because it happened to everyone at the same time.
Compared to that nothingburger, your claims and responses to comments are far more engaging.
Yr probably right. Society would go on as usual because the bottom line is, ultimately, unaffected.
But, squishy moods on a mass scale constitute the weather of politics and commerce. From that angle, big things might happen.
Consider the general stress of a population : X. When x goes up we vote and shop thusly. That’s a known thing.
And x would definitely go up here.So such a hackyvirus could be a tool in shifting a close election or selling an unpopular product.
(Not to mention the effect on phone sales, attitudes towards privacy, the eternally eroding nuclear family…)
So that’s a thing to think about.
That’s not what they said or implied, and nor is what follows a reasonable conclusion
I’m convinced you’re just a sophist who loves the act of arguing itself for its own sake, without any care for truth, only appearing insightful and logical
You offer so many accusations. It’s hard to keep track.
No, I’ve pretty consistently called you a fart huffing egomaniac, or similar. But hey, I guess you just couldn’t resist yet another deflection.