What ever happened to nuance?

I suspect it is the slow breakdown of respect, social skills, and manners over the last couple of decades brought on by ME-ism, selfishness, bad parenting (absent parents, broken homes), technology spoiling everyone with instant everything, and it is only going to get worse.

Now, when you HAVE any opinion or perspective, it gets dragged across the internet globally, and EVERYONE jumps on it not knowing the real story. This will lead to less and less personal ideas and opinions, thus, propagating the elimination of "individuality" and the freedom of it.

It's sad and pathetic. I've had plenty of intelligent discussions with people in the past, but, yes, things are getting worse. I won't blame millennials (the ones I know personally are outstanding people) but perhaps MY generation that raised them poorly. And on down the hill it goes.

Normally I would agree totally with what you're saying, and I too miss those days when such discussions were possible. If I could be so presumptuous to speak for the more thoughtful amongst us, I think many of us are frustrated with the element that come in with an automatic dismissive attitude and gleefully pounce on an artwork's perceived success or failure. Personally, I don't know a better way to deal with such a dismissive attitude, particularly with a artwork such as this with clearly something important to say, but with a hammer. I wish it weren't so, but I do applaud your, perhaps naive, attempt to restore civility.

I'm of the generation that watched Siskel and Ebert religiously and wanted to be like them because the job was cool but also it was so much fun to watch a real debate over something I loved. I miss it too and wish that now that i'm trying to be like them, I could bring it back in some way. The trolls have ruined it (and the imdb message boards for that matter) but I do think (and hope) there are more people more interested in participating in that debate than just willing to troll.


I'm trying to go for an engaging, funny youtube channel so, if you have the time, take a look. Hope you enjoy what you see. Thanks in advance. A review of the movie here-https://youtu.be/NVoWkfpcMs8

Here is what I believe is the real, full issue:

When the internet was just going public, I was online "discussing" things with people. Not with like minded, equally intelligent communicators.... it was ANYONE. Even children.

This is a communication that should never have been allowed to exist.

It's as if you went to a public mall, randomly picked a cross section of randomly diverse people, shove them into a corner and watch the discussion. MOST OF THEM you would never be sitting around talking with IN REAL LIFE. Do we want our younger children to go into the cigar smoking den and discuss world politics with a bunch of old fogies? Of course not, and they should be bored by the idea and repelled. Not so online. It's just another game.

The internet is ultimate freedom of global communications.... communications we were never designed to have. It shouldn't exist like this. There'll never be some sort of age or intelligence restrictions to online actions, but that is exactly what it would take to fix this. Our freedom here comes with an uncontrollable downside and we see it here in trolls.