The Hyper-Sensitivity of Society (2 Viewers)

Oye, ours is an idealistic view in that to achieve these things you promote people would really have to genuinely care about those around them no matter who they are or where they come from, rather than just tolerate other people.
In lieu of that people just need to avoid being so quick to take offense at what others choose to believe. If a person is not directly trying to harm me, they can do whatever they wish. It won't change how I feel about them.
 
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You couldn't be more wrong in calling me hyper sensitive. The exclamation points are a habit or writing style...................nothing more and nothing less. You're far from the first person to note my use of the exclamation points. It's just a writing style that I've always used. I mean I'm not sitting here in my chair and fuming or being triggered by the overly sensitive topic of discussion that some people here seem to be intent on telling that my view is archaic and out of touch because of the generation that I was born in to.

Just like everyone else here my opinion is nothing more than an opinion but it seems like it certainly has triggered the sensitivities of a few others.

I'm not perfect and none of us are.

To cut through the BS and put it simply:

This is what a hyper-sensitive person actually sounds like.

There are currently far more people who are hyper-sensitive themselves over a perceived "hyper-sensitive PC-culture safe-space participation-trophy culture" than there are people who actually belong to that culture. That culture is largely a media creation designed to sell advertising to the first group of people on television and radio.

Why did you trigger people? Because this imaginary advertising-selling culture fueled Trump's election, and I'll bet one functioning and funded federal government that it isn't working out that well and has a few people upset.
 
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As a general rule I think that people who talk more about their opinions are more sensitive than those who talk about their opinions less. Expressing one's thoughts that this should be that way, and that should be this way, and it's wrong how it is is, to a significant degree, an expression of sensitivity. Perhaps the more someone does that the more sensitive they are. Also, the frequency and intensity with which that's done may determine whether or not one's sensitivity is "hyper."

It's not always bad to be hypersensitive. Maybe it's not even usually bad. I associate sensitivity with caring. In my opinion there are good things and bad things to care about, just as there are good and bad things to be sensitive about, and you'd agree with much of it, while disagreeing with much of it.

Some of my favorite people have been hypersensitive to the things I'm sensitive about. MLK for instance could be considered hypersensitive. His hypersensitivity to racism and war has led to a much better world. It's hard to argue that MLK was not a sensitive man.

Optimistically, in the long run, I think all of our disagreements are just a slow process towards a more agreeable world. We live in a new age of mass communication that's expanding rapidly. Our community is growing -- consequently more opinions will be shared to a greater extent and there will be a greater clash, more opportunities for our sensitivities to be triggered.

Sharing our sensitivities is generally a good thing. How else could we learn to better live with one another?
 
Don Lemon's take on the Kevin Hart sorry/not sorry
watch it unless you're hypersensitive



I think Kevin Hart and Don Lemon are both hillarious. Lemon, of course, does not intend to be, but nonetheless he is a national treasure for bringing home the lols.
 
Oye, ours is an idealistic view in that to achieve these things you promote people would really have to genuinely care about those around them no matter who they are or where they come from, rather than just tolerate other people.

I acknowledged that it is somewhat pollyannish and I don't expect we'll every actually get there ever. And I don't think I'll see a ton of improvement in my lifetime.

So, rather than focus on that broadly, I try to make an impact in the circles I am in - especially with our youth. I find them more receptive and more skeptical, in a healthy way, than adults most times. Trying to get a rich kid to see something from a poor kid, a white kid from a black kid, a Canadian from an American, a North American from a Middle Eastern, and so on.

Teach about media literacy and the ways in which we can be duped and fooled and buy into things that are actually distortions - and what do those distortions say both about the targeted group and the group doing the distorting.

The more information given to these kids, the better. The more perspectives they are presented with, the better. The more tools they are given to break down media messages and understand how the media sits in the middle (hence, "media") between Us and Some Other Thing Not Us and what that can mean.

But I'm pretty aware of the limitations of my own work, but I know a lot of this is happening - and, as I've mentioned before now, it's not always easy nor constructive nor fair. The hope is that we can continue toward a more understanding middle ground. Expectations tempered, of course.
 
As a general rule I think that people who talk more about their opinions are more sensitive than those who talk about their opinions less. Expressing one's thoughts that this should be that way, and that should be this way, and it's wrong how it is is, to a significant degree, an expression of sensitivity. Perhaps the more someone does that the more sensitive they are. Also, the frequency and intensity with which that's done may determine whether or not one's sensitivity is "hyper."

It's not always bad to be hypersensitive. Maybe it's not even usually bad. I associate sensitivity with caring. In my opinion there are good things and bad things to care about, just as there are good and bad things to be sensitive about, and you'd agree with much of it, while disagreeing with much of it.

Some of my favorite people have been hypersensitive to the things I'm sensitive about. MLK for instance could be considered hypersensitive. His hypersensitivity to racism and war has led to a much better world. It's hard to argue that MLK was not a sensitive man.

Optimistically, in the long run, I think all of our disagreements are just a slow process towards a more agreeable world. We live in a new age of mass communication that's expanding rapidly. Our community is growing -- consequently more opinions will be shared to a greater extent and there will be a greater clash, more opportunities for our sensitivities to be triggered.

Sharing our sensitivities is generally a good thing. How else could we learn to better live with one another?
I agree that when extreme sensitivity is taken to mean 'in tune with the feelings and needs of others', then that certainly is a good thing. Since I didn't make it clear originally, I edited my OP to explain that I was referring to a hyper-sensitivity that makes them easily offended by what everyone says and does. This type of sensitivity is more about their own feelings than those of others. More and more people have become quick to argue or retaliate when someone suggests something they do not agree with.

Hopefully this makes more clear what I meant from the start.
 
I acknowledged that it is somewhat pollyannish and I don't expect we'll every actually get there ever. And I don't think I'll see a ton of improvement in my lifetime.

So, rather than focus on that broadly, I try to make an impact in the circles I am in - especially with our youth. I find them more receptive and more skeptical, in a healthy way, than adults most times. Trying to get a rich kid to see something from a poor kid, a white kid from a black kid, a Canadian from an American, a North American from a Middle Eastern, and so on.

Teach about media literacy and the ways in which we can be duped and fooled and buy into things that are actually distortions - and what do those distortions say both about the targeted group and the group doing the distorting.

The more information given to these kids, the better. The more perspectives they are presented with, the better. The more tools they are given to break down media messages and understand how the media sits in the middle (hence, "media") between Us and Some Other Thing Not Us and what that can mean.

But I'm pretty aware of the limitations of my own work, but I know a lot of this is happening - and, as I've mentioned before now, it's not always easy nor constructive nor fair. The hope is that we can continue toward a more understanding middle ground. Expectations tempered, of course.
Well, keep up the good work. I'm sure you are having a positive effect on many young people... and that's a good thing!
 
I think Kevin Hart and Don Lemon are both hillarious. Lemon, of course, does not intend to be, but nonetheless he is a national treasure for bringing home the lols.
if yoy're in it for the yucks, you'll love this:
Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes is still struggling to distance himself from his extreme image. After stepping down in November from the far-right group he created, McInnes now wants neighbors in his tony New York suburb to take down yard signs aimed at him and his former group.
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After the New York attack, one of McInnes’s neighbors in the wealthy suburb of Larchmont proposed that residents buy “Hate Has No Home Here” signs as a quiet rebuke to McInnes and the Proud Boys. The signs, which feature the message in several languages, soon started appearing in Larchmont.
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“I am writing on behalf of my family to ask you to reconsider whether the message of your lawn sign moves our world and our village in the direction of love at all, or whether it sends a very different message instead,”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-mcinnes-writes-letters-to-neighbors-to-take-down-anti-hate-signs
 
if yoy're in it for the yucks, you'll love this:
Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes is still struggling to distance himself from his extreme image. After stepping down in November from the far-right group he created, McInnes now wants neighbors in his tony New York suburb to take down yard signs aimed at him and his former group.
...
After the New York attack, one of McInnes’s neighbors in the wealthy suburb of Larchmont proposed that residents buy “Hate Has No Home Here” signs as a quiet rebuke to McInnes and the Proud Boys. The signs, which feature the message in several languages, soon started appearing in Larchmont.
...
“I am writing on behalf of my family to ask you to reconsider whether the message of your lawn sign moves our world and our village in the direction of love at all, or whether it sends a very different message instead,”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-mcinnes-writes-letters-to-neighbors-to-take-down-anti-hate-signs
I don't care about that one way or another, but when I am feeling the blues I do play that video of the one guy knocking out three of those "warriors" in a row. Good times.
 
I agree that when extreme sensitivity is taken to mean 'in tune with the feelings and needs of others', then that certainly is a good thing. Since I didn't make it clear originally, I edited my OP to explain that I was referring to a hyper-sensitivity that makes them easily offended by what everyone says and does. This type of sensitivity is more about their own feelings than those of others. More and more people have become quick to argue or retaliate when someone suggests something they do not agree with.

Hopefully this makes more clear what I meant from the start.
More and more people may have become quick to argue and retaliate, but that may not be because people have become more sensitive. I just think that it's the result of more and more availability of inexpensive global communication, information, and ease of participation, rather than some change in the way people are. The way that people think hasn't changed as much as their ability to express themselves has changed. Actually, considering that we've made so much social progress in the last century, I'd probably argue that people in general have become better.
 
To cut through the BS and put it simply:

This is what a hyper-sensitive person actually sounds like.

There are currently far more people who are hyper-sensitive themselves over a perceived "hyper-sensitive PC-culture safe-safe participation-trophy culture" than there are people who actually belong to that culture. That culture is largely a media creation designed to sell advertising to the first group of people on television and radio.

Why did you trigger people? Because this imaginary advertising-selling culture fueled Trump's election, and I'll bet one functioning and funded federal government that it isn't working out that well and has a few people upset.

Ok lets cut through the BS and put it simply:

If you think the ""hyper-sensitive PC-culture safe-safe participation-trophy culture" is perceived and not real then maybe you need to get out into the real world more often. I could not care less about generation snowflake who get their panties twisted into a knot because their favorite candidate lost an election or because someone wears a hat that offends their fragile sensitivities. It's called losing and it's something that they have a very difficult time dealing with because they've been told most of their lives that there are no losers.

I'm not going to apologize to anyone because I have an issue with a man who puts on women's underwear and believes that it gives him the right to use the same rest room that my wife and 12 year old daughter uses. I'm not ever going to bow down to the "pronoun correct" rhetoric because if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's not a giraffe because it has a long neck.

Denying that something does indeed exist doesn't make it not real and I've paid my dues in the real world and in the work force to be able to express my own opinion on the real things that I see going on around me.

You're judging me without knowing a thing about me and that's fine because you have the right to do that or at least you think you do. Either way I don't care.

So you can go right ahead and believe that all this stuff is just a made up media creation all you want because the only one you are fooling is yourself.

If anything that I believe in or have said triggers your sensitivities then it's mission accomplished because I've proven that you can pull a jackass without a rope and lead him right to where you want him to go.
 
I think it’s hard to account for how the information age has changed our perception of events.

Very few of these events that spark outrage would have been widely known of beyond the local area or region 40 years ago.

Now everyone knows about every little thing. It’s not hard to find 10,000 examples of people out of 350,000,000 that are rabidly outraged over almost anything. That doesn’t make their outrage meaningful.

Then it gets processed through our binary political system, and everyone has to pick a side.

All of the sudden we have a crisis of outrage/PC/sensitivity that is actually just a byproduct of our inability to adapt to almost omniscient awareness.
 
Ok lets cut through the BS and put it simply:

If you think the ""hyper-sensitive PC-culture safe-safe participation-trophy culture" is perceived and not real then maybe you need to get out into the real world more often. I could not care less about generation snowflake who get their panties twisted into a knot because their favorite candidate lost an election or because someone wears a hat that offends their fragile sensitivities. It's called losing and it's something that they have a very difficult time dealing with because they've been told most of their lives that there are no losers.

I'm not going to apologize to anyone because I have an issue with a man who puts on women's underwear and believes that it gives him the right to use the same rest room that my wife and 12 year old daughter uses. I'm not ever going to bow down to the "pronoun correct" rhetoric because if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's not a giraffe because it has a long neck.

Denying that something does indeed exist doesn't make it not real and I've paid my dues in the real world and in the work force to be able to express my own opinion on the real things that I see going on around me.

You're judging me without knowing a thing about me and that's fine because you have the right to do that or at least you think you do. Either way I don't care.

So you can go right ahead and believe that all this stuff is just a made up media creation all you want because the only one you are fooling is yourself.

If anything that I believe in or have said triggers your sensitivities then it's mission accomplished because I've proven that you can pull a jackass without a rope and lead him right to where you want him to go.
You’re right, you don’t have to apologize
Your having to carry all that around by yourself seems burden enough
 
Ok lets cut through the BS and put it simply:

If you think the ""hyper-sensitive PC-culture safe-safe participation-trophy culture" is perceived and not real then maybe you need to get out into the real world more often. I could not care less about generation snowflake who get their panties twisted into a knot because their favorite candidate lost an election or because someone wears a hat that offends their fragile sensitivities. It's called losing and it's something that they have a very difficult time dealing with because they've been told most of their lives that there are no losers.

I'm not going to apologize to anyone because I have an issue with a man who puts on women's underwear and believes that it gives him the right to use the same rest room that my wife and 12 year old daughter uses. I'm not ever going to bow down to the "pronoun correct" rhetoric because if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's not a giraffe because it has a long neck.

Denying that something does indeed exist doesn't make it not real and I've paid my dues in the real world and in the work force to be able to express my own opinion on the real things that I see going on around me.

You're judging me without knowing a thing about me and that's fine because you have the right to do that or at least you think you do. Either way I don't care.

So you can go right ahead and believe that all this stuff is just a made up media creation all you want because the only one you are fooling is yourself.

If anything that I believe in or have said triggers your sensitivities then it's mission accomplished because I've proven that you can pull a jackass without a rope and lead him right to where you want him to go.

Respectfully, you seem to be more than a little sensitive (and frankly, judgmental) about a lot of things yourself.

I don’t think this is the thread to get into whether you are right or wrong, or argue our opinions about that, but I will say that many people feel differently about issues of sex, gender, work ethic and toughness (especially how it relates to age/generation) than you do.

While you may think them wrong, they have a case and a right to be heard. Sure, some fly off the handle and make terrible arguments but that’s true of all camps/sides/generations/etc. Many more have great explanations for why they think and feel certain ways.

Frankly, I wish more people would listen before speaking so strongly about “sensitivity”, “panties in a wad” and “snowflakes” while dismissing what the other person was actually saying.

Holding off on the labels and judgement doesn’t mean that you have to agree with them. And I’ll be honest, not everyone who has a negative reaction to some of what you just posted is being sensitive. Sometimes people do say judgmental and offensive things.

Sure, it’s not the end of the world, but disagreeing with it or saying “I didn’t appreciate that” doesn’t necessarily mean their panties are in a wad.
 

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