This is one of the top comments and one I 100% agree with.
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Sigh... Idiocy is like a virus. We don't have a vaccine for it, but we used to keep it under control through isolation. Every village might have its idiot, but at least the idiots were in separate villages. Thanks to Facebook and other social media, the idiots now get together all the time in online super spreader events of idiocy. Now the idiocy pandemic is out of control, and we still have no vaccine. Of course a new idiocy variant would be the denial of germ theory during a pandemic of a novel virus. We are so fucked.
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I think we might be going from a genetic to a memetic evolutionary process/society. Right now we’re on the start of something terrible, because memetically we’ve opened the organism and are letting bacteria fester.
The 1930s were similar. We allowed mass psychosis to set in through the new medium of radio. Now we’re letting it set in through the internet. Different kinds but same effect. We’re about to head into a similar mass psychosis event.
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Sigh... Idiocy is like a virus. We don't have a vaccine for it, but we used to keep it under control through isolation. Every village might have its idiot, but at least the idiots were in separate villages. Thanks to Facebook and other social media, the idiots now get together all the time in online super spreader events of idiocy. Now the idiocy pandemic is out of control, and we still have no vaccine. Of course a new idiocy variant would be the denial of germ theory during a pandemic of a novel virus. We are so fucked.
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I think we might be going from a genetic to a memetic evolutionary process/society. Right now we’re on the start of something terrible, because memetically we’ve opened the organism and are letting bacteria fester.
The 1930s were similar. We allowed mass psychosis to set in through the new medium of radio. Now we’re letting it set in through the internet. Different kinds but same effect. We’re about to head into a similar mass psychosis event.