I tend to feel this is why biologically we were not ready for the Internet. Dunbar's number [1] makes us feel as if there's only 150 people in our monkeysphere

I tend to feel this is why biologically we were not ready for the Internet. Dunbar's number [1] makes us feel as if there's only 150 people in our monkeysphere [2]. So when someone's yelling at us from the other side of the Internet, our brains aren't equipped to say "that's one in a million" - it feels like there's one in 150 and suddenly we've got SIWOTI Syndrome [3] going. It really showed up during the pandemic - our brain couldn't process getting immediate notice that there was 150 people (among 8 million in our county) with a deadly disease. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number [2] - https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html [3] - https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/SIWOTI_Syndrome https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/SIWOTI_Syndrome