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Turns out, people are just stupid and the more information access you give them the more they can reinforce their stupidity with other idiots' opinions
The human brain doesn't seek logic, it seeks validation and a storyline to explain how you feel. It will whip up stories very easily, but even easier if they're supplied.
So this system has been exploited to the extreme. It's our largest vulnerability as a species, that someone can make us feel an emotion and then attach a story to it, and our brains will adhere to that story without question.
This is very true, they get thousands of clicks especially by playing on people's anger and fear.
Ex-fucking-actly. Like I said in another recent comment, the problem with the internet is that it allows the worst people you can imagine to form communities, and instead of them essentially dying alone and shunned by anyone who isn't a complete psychopath they start to think that their fuckwittery is not only acceptable but common
Yeah it can even be less sinister. The dumbest people can all hear someone of perceived authority (like someone on Rogan for example) who says “there’s actually no proof the world is round” and the idiots can be like “I knew it! I was right all along!” And they’ll never accept anything else because they were “proven right” that one time
It’s the complete degradation of (capital T) Truth
Oh yeah absolutely, although more often than not those people also tend to have hair-raisingly awful "political" opinions (ie. opinions which only qualify as politics for conservatives, but would usually land anybody else in jail)
Yeah it’s all bundled together. Before the internet, there were established authorities on certain matters. Now any idiot can go on twitter and claim to be a MD and fool a bunch of other idiots into thinking vaccines are deadly and used for brainwashing.
Like I said before, it’s the complete erosion of actual Truth
Definitely! Unless you have the ability to think critically, it is very easy to get swept away in the information dump.