Paris and hashtags: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In periods crisiss, Newton's law provides a surprisingly powerful framework for investigating how the world reacts.
After the explosions and shots that shook the French capital on Friday night, the Heads of State and politicians publish their sympathy for the victims on Twitter.
But the most essential feelings are there if you look for it hashtag, #PortesOuvertes - as Parisians say they have their doors open for people seeking safety in the city, as the confusion surrounding the attacks is unprecedented.
But at the same time, another hashtag is quickly gaining ground. It is supposed to come from the supporters of the Islamic State and have adopted the hashtag, #باريس_تشتعل means 'paris burns or "Paris is burning". It was the same hashtag used during the attacks at the offices of Charlie Hebdo earlier this year.
Of course, there have been many requests on Twitter to ban that hashtag, but so far the demands have fallen into a vacuum.
The negative climate also appeared in other ways. Some attribute responsibility to politicians and others to immigrants.
The internet is a perfect environment for competitive ideas to offer the surface to spread out after a major global event. In psychology, there is a term that fully describes this trend: vicarious rehearsal or representative essay.
This term states that as far as a person is from a threat, the more extreme the reaction takes place.
As confusion has begun to retreat to Paris, and people are slowly beginning to assemble events to understand what happened on Friday 13 in November, we thousands of others who are miles away should also try to find our own way to come to terms with what happened.
It would be futile with this post to look for who is right and who is wrong in this case. Joining groups that shout their "fair" opinion, and expect others to adopt it, will not help the grieving process.
Κανένα πρόσωπο ή καμία by clicking here cannot hold back the tide of negative sentiment currently swirling around the Web and beyond, upholding the right and denouncing the wrong. What is right and what is wrong is completely objective and depends on him visual angle you look at it, religion, culture and much, much more.
One that we talk about Paris and France, however, is to talk about Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, sociologist and historian.
Foucault had stated in a few words that prisons need and are useful to society because it can determine its regularity.
What right?
All we can do right now besides the analyzes and the on-line blame sharing, is to try to offer a way to help others interpret their feelings and maybe, just maybe, learn to empathize with those who share the hashtags…
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