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On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane? (lemm.ee)
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And when you have a billion people doing this, that's a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.

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[+] [S] -8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

When reality goes east and opinion goes west, getting further apart every day, then yes, I call that insanity.

And that's more than just the present state of opinions. That's arguably the core function of the present system. (not necessarily by design of course. That would probably be just paranoid).

Imagine a game of telephone. Where, a hundred exchanges down the chain, the chain twists upon itself, looping, conversation feeding upon recycled conversation, recursively. That's where we are.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If that's insanity then humans have been insane for thousands of years. People talking out their asses isn't new at all

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    By that logic a little plutonium never hurt anybody. And you'd be quite right. But now we have a big hill of the refined stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Except we've had this kind of brand of plutonium for hundreds of years. The concept of a widely distributed collection of knowledge dates back to the printing press. And believe it or not it was even more filled with utter bullshit than anything today. Remember when we thought diseases were caused by bad smells?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Lol no. That’s not at all where the current state of things is. Yes, you do have localized echo chambers where people repeat their insane little opinions about whatever bullshit alex Jones or musk or Jordan Peterson or whomever says. But that represents a minimal number compared to the amount of people out there who are vastly knowledgeable and studied and experienced in the things they do. Your hyperbolic hot take is not only wrong, but is also reductive and neglects to acknowledge that there are a lot of intelligent people out there doing good things for society.

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