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Since this article is regarding USA, it's worse than that. We are living in the golden age of insanity.
Delusional religious people and sociopathic Nazis have taken over USA.
For the civilized world there are warning signs, but insanity is unlikely to take control.
The American Dream has given way to the American Schizophrenic Psychotic Episode.
We can only hope it stays just an episode.
Worse than, say, the dark ages?
"Dark Ages" comes from Renaissance and Enlightenment scholars saying, "Thank God we're so smart. Those people were morons."
Also, it was after Rome really fell apart, darker times then the Empire certainly.
I’m starting to believe natural selection didn’t just get us to where we are, it kept us here.
The genetic variation in the human brain will lead to more and more good and bad variations generation after generation. Stupidity used to have deadly consequences, now it’s just poverty (or the White House).
Our society wants to be inclusive and accepting and liberating and safe, but what if that just doesn’t work with our current make? What if these mild deviations and mutations only progress forwards when the weak traits perish? We don’t have that mechanism anymore so weak and dangerous personality traits persist and continue to vote.
It’s a scary thought, but I can’t see anything wrong with the logic, especially observing how it’s taking hold across the globe.
There is a social media aspect to this. We have amplified the worst behaviors and reenforced them with monetary gains. We broke the incentive structure in America where being a doctor was the highest calling. The media is also incentivized to spew division, we've basically made money the greatest reward in society, and only award it to the worst people. Its a really effective way to skew the sociopathic tendencies of the masses.
Frankly, between blaming welfare and going for eugenics or blaming capitalism and going for socialism I'd much prefer the latter.
That was the early America I grew up in. We were taught to value the garbage man. We were taught to value anyone contributing to society. We were also taught to contribute to society. We had the history channel and uniform education where we all agreed on what happened in the past. We had media that would highlight noteable people and positive events in communities. You used to get the local TV spotlight by being a good person not a bad person. Anyway, the list could go on, but we could make America great again by bringing back some of the more socialist policies and educational practices that we had not even 20-30 years ago. We’ve been a socialist country since we decided public education for all and created social security. You don’t have to keep ramming the division part dude. You can just advocate for popular socialist policies. It’s way easier. Medicare for all. Improve public education, increase access to information, restore local media.
Seriously, a lot of you leftists are more detrimental to socialist policies than any of the right wing. Think about how you advocate. The only difference between capitalism and socialism is how we allocate the capital and align it with social values.
Don't fucking tone-police me. I'm not a politician idgaf about being palpable or "appealing to all sides".
Being rude doesn't make someone wrong and appealing to everyone doesn't make one right either.
I want socialism, education and welfare and decent living standarda for all. I want fascists and the multimillionaire class to stop existing. That's it, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.
People need to be willing to accept that their votes have been supporting fascists and going against their best interests and they need to be willing to consider a different perspective for that. It's not my responsibility to cater to those that spent their lives shitting on the very possibility of critical thinking.
So what’s your final solution for all the brainwashed republicans comrade?
Oh look it’s everyone’s favorite horseshoe solution 🤣
Seriously though... what about a Democrat voter who is gay, but works for a Palantir founder because it makes the most money? What about people who are opposed in votes and ideology but complicit in actions? What of the millions of well off, well educated democrats who won't sacrifice anything to oppose the fascists? I honestly hold them complicit as well. Fascism is totally fine as long as their QoL isn't diminished. What do we do to convince those people? The ones who vote status quo while it gets worse every year? The slow enablers of fascism?
Yes. Next question.
Nope, humans have always been stupid. People said the same shit when the printing press was invented, or TV, or whatever.
Seriously, crack a history book. Modern times are actually pretty good, even with all the bullshit.
Humans have always been stupid but today technology has made it easier for the dumbest among us to be more influential than any stupid person of any prior era. This, we are in the golden age of stupidity.
You could say the exact same thing about the smartest people being able to spread their message, and the two effects cancel out.
Same age as any other, more or less. These are human problems that won’t be fixed until we’re no longer human.
It requires more effort to spread intelligent ideas.
I have a book titled "Generation Doof" (Generation Stupid), and yes, this book got it right.
I'm afraid that most people under 30 would simply cease to function if the internet suddenly went away.
you would cease to function if electricity suddenly went away.
Many people would, but I think I could rig something to have a sufficient amount of power in the house.
I can still read books and manuals, and i do have those books and manuals in paper form.
and you think youre special? most people who cant read shit on paper cant read it on the internet. "reading books, and manuals in paper format" doesnt take that much brain power
Writes the one who has learned grammar in Twitter school.
sad argument
Point is that most people who read on Internet have not the experience to do somthing without Internet since they never lived without internet.
The only thing the internet allows you to do is find information.
You don't need "pre internet information gathering" experience to figure out where information is held. I know the location of many libraries off the top of my head.
I can go there, figure out the system they use, read a few books to find what I need, then head home.
I think that you overestimate the capacity of the yourger people to solve problems without any access to any form of online informations.
True, but the old generation will not fare any better if something they were born with suddenly went away.
My point is that it isn't a new thing.
you would cease to function if oxygen suddenly went away.
if youre trying to argue, you just proved my point.
We are living through idiots revenge.
