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The internet changed the scale and speed of communications, which is why all of this seems like it’s a new phenomenon, but politics has always been like this, i
by nis0s 2y ago
The internet changed the scale and speed of communications, which is why all of this seems like it’s a new phenomenon, but politics has always been like this, if not worse.
In fact, misinformation campaigns allow carrying out bloodless takeovers of democracies, so from a cost benefit analysis of having to wage armed conflicts, the current state is an improvement.
Our biggest mistake was letting postmodern philosophers trick us into believing that truth doesn’t exist, or that it is subjective or malleable.
- drewbeck 2y agoIs your assertion that if those philosophers hadn’t written then we wouldn’t have a misinformation problem on the internet?
- nis0s 2y agoI think the intelligentsia sold everyone on these ideas really well. It’s hard to say what would have been, but people work with the frameworks they’re given, either directly or indirectly, and some frameworks muddy the waters.
- FrankWilhoit 2y agoPeople only believe the particular misinformation that they already wanted to hear, and none of them have heard, however indirectly, of any philosophers, postmodern or premodern.