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> but then I reminded myself US is a nation of 330+ million people. As I type this, there are a few score people gathered together waiting for a long-dead icon
by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> but then I reminded myself US is a nation of 330+ million people.
As I type this, there are a few score people gathered together waiting for a long-dead icon of liberal politics to return from beyond the grave and join forces with the previous president, who is politically opposite.
You can find anyone who believes anything in the US of A.
- ravenstine 5y agoThat's totally fair. Perhaps for people such as myself, who grew up in a time where the fringe of society pretty much stayed that way, the publicity that anyone can get today can create a simulation of normalcy.
- SavantIdiot 5y ago> the publicity that anyone can get today can create a simulation of normalcy. It seems like it isn't hard for any belief or belief-system to obtain a critical mass. It feels like a paradox: if the threshold for critical mass has fallen, or the number of people required to reach critical mass has grown for every niche? I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm scared. Maybe this is the "old person scared" thing I giggled about when I was a kid watching my grandmother try to make sense of a computer...