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I honestly don't understand the animosity towards the author. I consider this sort of mischief to be a healthy thing. If you are exposed to true facts constan
by ipsin 10y ago
I honestly don't understand the animosity towards the author.
I consider this sort of mischief to be a healthy thing. If you are exposed to true facts constantly, all facts are true, in the same way that a TSA X-ray tech who sees ten thousand not-bombs might miss the one actual bomb.
I think of lies and disinformation as good for a mental agility, and an adjunct of storytelling. Is there no space for the trickster in our lives?
- joe_the_user 10y agoPranks and studying how unsourced information spreads is fine, the "history is meaningless on the internet" claim is probably what people are reacting to. A lot of mystics use the argument, "because you can be fool here, truth itself does not exist" and sometimes that can be fairly harmful.
- mangeletti 10y agoIf you're referring to my comment and the tree under that, there isn't any animosity whatsoever, just a lack of respect for the notion that the author's own mischief is somehow a sign of how the Internet isn't capable of representing truths, which is absurd.