moea_joint
109年
英文
第 comp38 題
📖 題組：
There’s a fun game I like to play in a group of trusted friends called “Controversial Opinion”. The rules are simple: Don’t talk about what was shared during Controversial Opinion afterward and you aren’t allowed to “argue”—only to ask questions about why that person feels that way. Opinions can range from “I think James Bond movies are overrated” to “I think Donald Trump would make an excellent president”. Usually, someone responds to an opinion with, “Oh my god! I had no idea you were one of those people!” Which is really another way of saying “I thought you were on my team!” In psychology, the idea that everyone is like us is called the “false-consensus bias”. This bias often manifests itself when we see in politics or polls. Online it means we can be blindsided by the opinions of our friends. Over time, this morphs into a subconscious belief that we and our friends are the sane ones and that there’s a crazy “Other Side” that must be laughed at—an Other Side that just doesn’t “get it”, and is clearly not as intelligent as “us”. But this holier-than-thou social media behavior is counterproductive, it’s self-aggrandizement at the cost of actual nuanced discourse and if we want to consider online discourse productive, we need to move past this. What is emerging is the worst kind of echo chamber, one where those inside are increasingly convinced that everyone shares their world view, that their ranks are growing when they aren’t. It’s like clockwork: an event happens and then your social media circle is shocked when a non-social media peer group public reacts to news in an unexpected way. They then mock the Other Side for being “out of touch” or “dumb”.
There’s a fun game I like to play in a group of trusted friends called “Controversial Opinion”. The rules are simple: Don’t talk about what was shared during Controversial Opinion afterward and you aren’t allowed to “argue”—only to ask questions about why that person feels that way. Opinions can range from “I think James Bond movies are overrated” to “I think Donald Trump would make an excellent president”. Usually, someone responds to an opinion with, “Oh my god! I had no idea you were one of those people!” Which is really another way of saying “I thought you were on my team!” In psychology, the idea that everyone is like us is called the “false-consensus bias”. This bias often manifests itself when we see in politics or polls. Online it means we can be blindsided by the opinions of our friends. Over time, this morphs into a subconscious belief that we and our friends are the sane ones and that there’s a crazy “Other Side” that must be laughed at—an Other Side that just doesn’t “get it”, and is clearly not as intelligent as “us”. But this holier-than-thou social media behavior is counterproductive, it’s self-aggrandizement at the cost of actual nuanced discourse and if we want to consider online discourse productive, we need to move past this. What is emerging is the worst kind of echo chamber, one where those inside are increasingly convinced that everyone shares their world view, that their ranks are growing when they aren’t. It’s like clockwork: an event happens and then your social media circle is shocked when a non-social media peer group public reacts to news in an unexpected way. They then mock the Other Side for being “out of touch” or “dumb”.
What does it mean to have a holier-than-thou social media behavior?
- A Listen to others’ opinions without being judgmental.
- B Interact only with people in your social echo chamber.
- C Being condescending when listening to others’ opinions.
- D Try to reach a common ground when debating with people online.
思路引導 VIP
當作者提到人們會嘲弄另一方「跟社會脫節」或「愚蠢」，並形容這種行為是在追求「自我擴張（self-aggrandizement）」時，你認為這些人在心態上，是將自己置於比他人「更高」還是「更低」的位置？這種心態會如何影響他們與人溝通的語氣呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
字彙意涵與語意推論
太棒了！你能準確捕捉到 holier-than-thou 這個形容詞的神韻，代表你對文章整體的批判語氣有很敏銳的觀察。這個詞從字面上看是「比你還要神聖」，但在文中是用來諷刺那種「自以為道德高尚、自命不凡」的社群媒體行為。這類行為在文中被描述為對「另一方（Other Side）」進行嘲諷，認為對方不聰明或不理智，這正符合選項 (C) 中 condescending（居高臨下的、傲慢的）的定義。
難度評析：掌握作者的弦外之音
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