Freedom of speech doesn’t have to look like a collection of retarded chimpanzees. Sometimes it’s just good enough to know you can’t get censored or deplatformed for being your normal self.

Great take. I very much agree. What I am suggesting is that the same deep-conscious self-suppression is happening on Nostr that we saw in ex-USSR nations after their liberation.

You might have a point there, but it’s not easy to change a cultural vibe without a catalyst. It’s also possible that people here just prefer to undershare for the benefit of their own mental health.

Also, great take. The most important Truths are held in great tension. I hope Nostr is always place for healing casual interactions. Yet for it to be what our shared world needs most it must also be a place of notable courage.

freedom of speech requires responsibility and intellectual development, not its degradation.

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I think maybe when you leave people to express themselves, they don’t tend to be so angry all the time. I suppose positivity attracts positivity and negativity attracts negativity - and sometimes positivity attracts negativity too, unfortunately. Kind of like in Lilo & Stitch when he arrives on the island and realises there’s no big city to destroy, he mellows out. They don’t have to, but it just seems to happen.

Good take. Also, people have been controlled so long they don’t know what to do with freedom. Similar things happened in post-USSR controlled eastern European countries. The super-saturation of conditioning we have been under makes it so there is almost nothing to juxtapose. The result: Unconscious self-censorship.