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I'll be honest. I didn't expect people to be this stupid. That's on me with the whole information superhighway thing being "a good thing". I didn't think there would be this calcified idiocy that continued to grow in spite of the fact that plainspoken factual refutations for it were just a few keystrokes away.
I didn't believe people would fall for such blatantly idiotic shit "in the future". Despite being an American. I know, I know. My bad.
Turns out equalizing the flow of information isn't all up side.
The original assumption was that this data super highway would transfer the truth and facts.
But it turns out because anyone can distribute any falsehood, people instead are able to find things to reinforce their existing opinion, instead of the truth. The biggest strength of the modern day internet is also what will ultimately be its downfall I believe. The next kind of web will definitely be different.
It's because stupid can find friends that agree on the Internet. Not as possible IRL.
I’ve always felt like people were falling for ridiculous things, but they did it a lot more privately/locally. Like all these posts on Facebook we see that are public record or people just going off. None of that was making the rounds to the general population 20 years ago. But I have very little doubt people were doing things that would have been passed around at the time.