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Yes because times have changed. People spend more time reacting to things they can't solve than on developing the discipline it takes to address them. Social me
by throaway23 10y ago
Yes because times have changed. People spend more time reacting to things they can't solve than on developing the discipline it takes to address them. Social media and news media are totally architected to encourage this kind of thinking and behaviour. And its costing us big.
Most people in the world aren't well prepped to deal with this overloading of complexity. Its like constantly bombarding a bunch of second graders with tenth grade problems. There are huge consequences to that playing out right now in society.
This concept that people with access to info will develop healthy ways to parse the info by themselves is total BS. Its like saying access to a library is a kid needs to get educated. If that were true why do we need teachers and schools.
With speed and scale of info delivery comes a responsibility unlike ever before to think about the unintended consequences. Its just not happening. People are falling over themselves reporting complex things whose solutions they barely understand.
- CalRobert 10y agoIf you're going to lecture from on high and pass judgment on the poor plebs who can barely understand complex ideas, _please_ learn that "its" is possessive. You want "it's". I may be accused of pedantry but you committed this error repeatedly. It grates.