I know this sounds pretentious (which is quite ironic), but this is something I’ve noticed about the internet. You never read about what someone does, only what they say. You hear politicians claim that they’ll fix the economy, or celebrities make speeches about what they feel like, or what “message” a fictional movie has being discussed over and over, but none of that matters, because it’s all saying and no doing!
Posting thoughts on social media in the form of words is an action.
Translation: “I have no way of arguing with this obvious and simply stated fact, so I’ll pretend they’re 14 and think it’s deep and then attack them for that. I’m 28 and this is a worthwhile use of my time.”
I’m not 28
Oh but I bet that other person is 14 then. That’s obviously the substance of my critique, you win.
Your behaviour is quite excrubulent right now. I don’t appreciate that
Glad to hear it!
Funniest shit I read today
Although I’m curious to know if it’s a full or multiple round action. With traditional D&D having 6 seconds to a round, it might be two rounds, maaaaaybe three.
But talking out loud with words isn’t action? I broadly agree with you, but by that logic it deconstructs the statement entirely.
If typing words is action, then so it’s speaking, so the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.
Except actions and words both matter so I think the saying is garbo.
Showing up to a protest is also an action. So is smashing someone’s car. Do you think you can feed the hungry purely by posting thoughts on social media?
None of those actions feeds the hungry
If you have actions and words, then you should judge them based on actions because that is what they did and not what they said. The actions are more important than the words. If they promote peace and love, but spend their evenings violently attacking children, then their actions speak louder than words.
If all you have is words, then you work with what you have. At that point you are responding more to the message they are expressing, not necessarily to them as an individual.
And the reason things are so bleak is because most people only have words to go off of, rather than actions.
For sure, and with even a teensy bit of reflection I think most people would agree that people are generally quite shit at expressing themselves with words. We say things we don’t mean or imply things we didn’t intend to all the time. A well written book or article takes hundreds of hours of re-writing and getting feedback and re-writing again just to try to communicate the author’s idea effectively. Snap judgments based on social media posts alone are pretty baseless.
I mean, how can you do your interpretation of a fictional movie?
