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> Facebook is useless because the village idiot gets more say than the scholar This here is a problem in and of itself. Selecting whose voice is to be heard th

> Facebook is useless because the village idiot gets more say than the scholar This here is a problem in and of itself. Selecting whose voice is to be heard the loudest is no mean feat and simplifying this problem by simply throwing scholars at it shows a lack of respect for just how hard this problem is. Scholars have been known to hold and present pretty atrocious and even murderous ideologies. Who's to say we should trust them and not ordinary Joe who goes about his business in a small but deeply meaningful way?

pacifika 8y ago
Because Joe doesn’t have decades of peer reviewed work as his context when posting his views and thus reasons from statistically limited experience.
- jmathai 8y ago
  Pretty sure that's precisely what makes Joe's views more appealing to many (most?) people.
  - eksemplar 8y ago
    Sure, but that's also why children are dying because their parents didn't vaccinate them after they listened to a bunch of fools.
eksemplar 8y ago
Well, you should hear from “evil” scholars, because you can still learn from them. You probably shouldn’t follow them though. By contrast you can learn nothing from what joe had for dinner yesterday. Not that scholars aren’t filling their Instagram profiles with pictures of food.