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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] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When somebody's ideas about reality, and reality itself, are really different, we say that person is fantasizing or hallucinating or suffering a fugue state. More or less insanity.

What I describe could be a personal insanity. Or a social kind of insanity, where society is insane. Like, the meme-structure from which our culture is made has assumed a pathological form.

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