{Replica} Sascha Lobos Spiegel-Column: Digital gentlemen & Gunter Dueck as anti-social?

Sascha Lobo got up in his column yesterday Spiegel Online vigorously railed against the German internet scene and its smug arrogance. And he's right about what he said. Only some of his arguments are rather bad. Trying to differentiate!

Society of specialists?

The topic has been on my mind for a long time: why are we isolated in ours Society the individual groups, for example professional groups, are so different from each other that discourse is no longer possible?

That the different groups are practically aliens next to each other and no longer understand each other at all? That this gap, thanks Internet, threatens to get bigger? And what can you do about it?

Spotted over scoffers

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You could say: Lobo mocks the scoffers in his column. To be more precise, he targets the estimated 50.000 people "who somehow contribute to the discussion about the digitally networked sphere and who represent the model of a free and open Internet."

Because they behave like digital masters, who rise with great hubris other than others: namely the unsuspecting offliners and the ignorant Internet printers, which they shower with malice and contempt.

At Lobo on the couch

Lobo says, the net people themselves are ignorant. And puts the German Internet scene very skillfully on the couch:

• Group dynamics and foreclosure tendencies: The Internet scene behaves like most other groups too. Although she negates to be a homogenous group at all, the members nevertheless behave frighteningly homogonously outwardly. You obviously do not notice that at all.
• Hubris from insecurity: Lobo attests the internet scene a lack of self-esteem. Because arrogance and malice are often signs of it. Reasons: Dependence on others. And your own weakness, for example, due to the lack of interest representation.
• Stubbornness and a lack of willingness to compromise: The nerds are concerned with the matter, what is missing is the ability to negotiate and convince. On the contrary, diplomacy and compromise are perceived as superfluous, even as deviant.

The result: No result

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Unfortunately, Lobo is right, and the result is not the desired result. Just because you want to stand out from others, you do not reach the others. It then turns out that one hundred times as many average citizens can explain the commuter flat rate aptly as the net neutrality. And that is the point of the crack like Lobo at the end of his text, politically speaking:

“Most experts – not just ours – are convinced that we are on the way to a networked, digital society. And from our circle, from the internet scene, it should actually be exactly the digital one Intelligence recruit people who think publicly about how this path can look like. To do this, we would have to shed our defiant and defiant impertinence and approach society as a whole without condescension with the openness that we constantly demand.”

Is Gunter Dueck asocial?

As I said, I totally agree with Lobo in this statement of his. But some of his arguments are a bit lopsided. For example, there is Gunter Dueck, whom he describes as anti-social. Reason: At the re:publica 2011, Dueck exaggerated how the internet affects our social system and also the Working world changed - for example with Ask like: "Don't you think that if someone has an illness, after two hours of surfing they know ten times more than their doctor?"

Well, if you take that literally, you can actually read the “grotesque mockery of Vocational Training, professionalism and science” that Lobo sees in it – and also the pandering to it Audience. I didn't take Dueck literally because he overdid it primarily to provoke.

How the network changes our professional world

Above all, ME wants Dueck to point out the decisive changes that our society is bringing with it. For example also because some professions your Significance verlierenthat we can do ourselves thanks to the internet. For everything else we need better equipped specialists and the ability to be constantly flexible and to learn for life - Thomas wrote a very good article on this.

For me, Dueck's merit also lies in pointing out the madness that we are heading towards ever faster thanks to rapid social change: namely, that many training paths and the resulting job titles are now outdated and that new professions are constantly being created for which one There is no uniform designation – more on that in this article.

Who populates, loses?

Which brings us to the basic problem - according to Lobo - in the entire discussion. Namely the way of the discussion. A lot of things are going wrong – and not just on the Internet. For example that the biggest awareness whoever shouts the loudest gets it.

With the result that the differentiated, quiet sounds are usually not heard. To be seen in pretty much every public discussion that takes place on the internet or elsewhere in the media. And I know what I'm talking about: I have it in my books for years or on Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® tried with differentiated, soft tones.

And what about Sarrazin?

Therefore, I can not agree with Lobo: whoever populates, does not lose, he wins. The fact that the number of discourse-relevant best-sellers from Germany to the digital sphere was zero in the year 2010 is not due to the missing offer, but to the way the German publishing and media landscape works.

There are probably good books, only they do not know a sow, because they are not sufficiently advertised, do not come into the press or the title is not provocative enough. As a bestseller, here is a reading recommendation. Instead, permanent suspect Thilo Sarrazin, who is also 2011 sits in the talkshows.

"What to do?" said Lobo

Lobo is self-critical: "Like many members of the Internet scene who are keen to discuss, it is much too difficult for me to present the same arguments as in the one hundred confrontations before, in a determined but friendly manner and to react to populism in a non-populist or lulz-like manner."

His demand: to turn away from populism - and is even more than populist even in this text, for example when he speaks of the digital gentleman or the anti-social Gunter Dueck. Or when he quotes CDU politician Jürgen Doetz, who accuses re: publica of “fascist tendencies” (and about whom I read something interesting the day before yesterday on netzpolitik.org).

But only one communication problem?

Precisely because Lobo has already recognized that, annoyingly enough, there aren't any Alternatives seems to give. Because the people are hard of hearing. However, Lobo only knows how not to do it, namely by paying back like with like. After all, he also recognized that the Debt in the deep discussion ditch is not only to be found on one side - and thus unmasks the whole dilemma as a communication problem:

“In spite of all the hubris of the network community that is worth criticizing, one must at least mention that the opposing forces occasionally argue incorrectly, out of their own interests, factually, populistically or even in terms of content. This should not be played down - but it is more common for interest groups. After the third provocation, our discussion behavior should not slide into pride when we actually want to achieve something. ”

Wanted alternatives and ideas

This shows that the other side is also busy building the ditch. But how do you overcome them? And that is Lobo's omission in this otherwise good text, something that I really miss painfully: showing practicable solutions, how to slowly fill in the trenches again. Such as: Knigge-Courses for nerds for example. Or something else nonsensical.

So once again only empty words and the usual abusive criticism instead ideas? Stop, there are ideas, namely with Stefan Urbach, who explains very clearly how People with different knowledge backgrounds could still work well together. Maybe a start!

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