Quote by philosopher #AgnesCallard talking, in part, about the internet's tendency toward negativity: "… goodness is more context-dependent than badness. There isn’t really anything that’s good all the time for everyone independent of context. There isn’t anything that will always make a person happy. But there are reliable ways to make people unhappy. "… we should predict that what we see on the internet, insofar as people are trying to be legible to large groups, is that they focus their attention on things that show up to everyone. Take two strangers on the internet trying to talk to each other. What are they going to coordinate on as a topic they can both care about? It’s likely going to be something bad." https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to #Philosophy #CurrentlyReading