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I'm wondering what it's going to take for people to realize that most of their online fora (present company included) aren't the great Greek philosophical salon
by shadowgovt 2y ago
I'm wondering what it's going to take for people to realize that most of their online fora (present company included) aren't the great Greek philosophical salons of yore; they're bored people on the Internet trading quips for serotonin hits.
The amount of accurate information you find online is probably worse than what you find talking to people IRL, but we seem to insist on treating it as a truth source instead of a game people are playing with each other.
- carimura 2y agoYes, but the problem is throughout all of history you could only talk to so many people IRL in a day... (same with newspapers, etc.) Now you can consume nearly unlimited opinions in a day so whatever it is we think about the accuracy of information online, it's shaping impressionable minds faster than biology and society can cope.