To rephrase it differently: it was not anticipated that the great majority of people cannot handle the amount of information, which is required for thoughtful d

To rephrase it differently: it was not anticipated that the great majority of people cannot handle the amount of information, which is required for thoughtful decisions, that they happy to accept obvious contradictions to avoid self-reflection, and that they lack even basic suspicion of information's validity. We were naive to think that they can choose, or even want to choose between options, that they want to be free from central agencies to tell them what to think. We really thought that The Long Tail would happen in everything. But hey, those people won greatly, who can and want.