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> Send this article to a hundred people and a lowball of seventy will take it as fact. Of that seventy, there will be a fraction who will believe it - or rather
by dvt 5y ago
> Send this article to a hundred people and a lowball of seventy will take it as fact. Of that seventy, there will be a fraction who will believe it - or rather, internalise the notion of it - even despite being told that it is false.
So what's your solution? Living in a world with no jokes, no satire, no hyperbole, no poetry, no simile? A world where Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" would've never been published because some people might take it a bit too seriously? I posit that this is the real danger.
- whatshisface 5y agoI think some people might actually be taking A Modest Proposal a bit too seriously. ;)