> Humans don't listen to one another and nod unthinkingly. They criticize and validate relentlessly. Friends aren't mistaken for oracles. We have learned to not

> Humans don't listen to one another and nod unthinkingly. They criticize and validate relentlessly. Friends aren't mistaken for oracles. We have learned to not trust one another, except when one is speaking from deep experience and expertise in a given domain. Do we though? I think a quick jaunt through any of the “-o-spheres” or “-tubes” of the internet would quickly disabuse someone of the idea that we default to not trusting other people. Even before the internet, “urban legends” are effectively “mass social hallucinations”.