From below: > ”if not billions” Narrator: “It’s not billions.” On the other hand, that post provoked a thought: Society has lost valuable herd immunity to b

From below: > ”if not billions” Narrator: “It’s not billions.” On the other hand, that post provoked a thought: Society has lost valuable herd immunity to bad thinking. Used to be kooks had to try hard to spread nonsense. Redefine kook as edgy, influencer, or in-the-know contrarian, and the nonsense practically spreads itself. And your remark raised a point too: it’s indeed about feeling special. Now that everything is noisy, that takes a special kind of noise.