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One thing that I've noticed in recent years is just how good the general population has gotten at bullshiting. Where before you didn't have too many teachers i
by mihaic 3y ago
One thing that I've noticed in recent years is just how good the general population has gotten at bullshiting.
Where before you didn't have too many teachers in this dark art of spinning any argument, the internet has given everyone a crash course into what arguments are easier or harder to combat.
This democratization I think ironically led to better arguing of worse concepts.
Maybe a critical mass is finally forming against bullshit.
- marcosdumay 3y ago> Maybe a critical mass is finally forming against bullshit. Oh, this is surely not it. The previous mass media has been reacting to the new distributed propaganda machines for a while already, in self-preservation mode. This article is just them trying not to be too confrontational for a change, because it backfired very badly. I keep hoping that some anti-bullshit memes spread, but when that happens, you won't see them on the mass media for a while. (And yes, I keep having to remind myself that protections against mass media appeared only after a pandemics of crimes against humanity it helped creating from the WWII to the 80's, and in only very few formats mostly useless against most problems. It's not a given that anti-bullshit memes can spread at all. The future is a dangerous place.)