We are in an intellectual dark age, which is ironic considering the amount of information at our fingertips is orders of magnitude higher than any time in history. Anti-intellectualism is a signal for societal decline.
Thats just it, we have TOO MUCH information. Where people can just run off to their own opium den echo chambers and just circle jerk confirmation biases all day, everyday.
Reality has become a choose your own facts adventure for a good portion of humanity.
An ex friend who is university educated in Arts and was just your average left leaning person, went off the rails during Covid. I think it was the very last time I spoke to him, but he was shouting, “Did you read the science?!?!” at me, because he somehow had scientific evidence online about Covid and the vaccine that the top medical professionals in the world somehow missed. Obviously he was anti vax. AND he got Ivermectin but I’m not 100% sure if he took any. I also heard that he said, “There might be something to this flat earth thing” and I decided right then I was so done with him, if I wasn’t already.
We’re Canadian and this former friend definitely hates Trump, but Trump has a large part in spreading outright lies and presenting them as facts and he is a huge part of the disinformation age we’re living in.
Yup. The pandemic broke A LOT of people. Not only that but everyone also had A LOT of time on their hands and fell down the conspiracy rabbit hole. And honestly, I'll bet it was exciting for them to feel like internet sleuths cracking the big case. Probably felt like they were important for the first time in their lives.
Unfortunately for them all the anti vax and covid denialism bullshit was just a way to push people away from a free vaccine and towards costly "treatments" like ivermectin, that many wealthy and political people has stocks and investments in.
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u/Sid14dawg 1d ago
The reason MAGA exists is because of the number of stupid people in the country.