@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • edit-28 months agoOn social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane?message-square43fedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down130file-text
arrow-up1161arrow-down1message-squareOn social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane?@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • edit-28 months agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
And when you have a billion people doing this, that’s a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink0•8 months agoThere’s a lurking assumption that anything this complex, coherent and fervently argued must surely be true. But it just ain’t so. The creation of entire galaxies of utter bullshit is actually quite trivial.
And that’s why I don’t use social media
There’s a lurking assumption that anything this complex, coherent and fervently argued must surely be true. But it just ain’t so. The creation of entire galaxies of utter bullshit is actually quite trivial.