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"This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment." It's worse than that. What they are advocating is surrounding yourself with a comforting bubble t
by endorphone 7y ago
"This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment."
It's worse than that. What they are advocating is surrounding yourself with a comforting bubble that feeds you a steady dose of pablum that confirms your existing biases. Twitter has been an extraordinary source of ignorance bubbles and has been an extremely negative force on the conveyance of accurate information.
A couple of weeks ago the GP had the top post to a story about the oceans warming, which is remarkably telling given this post. In it they casually dismissed the report of the world's scientists, paraded an ignorant counter-conclusion, and called it a day. This is straight from the AGW-denier playbook and you can see in the GP exactly how such people are made -- "Ignore what your eyes and ears are telling you. Listen to what the tiny subsection of ignorant people are pitching".
Their philosophy is how the world got "pizzagate". Where people like Jordan Peterson have cults.