Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

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This whole article sounds like the US Administrative State complaining they can&#x27;t control the narrative anymore because all of their &quot;institutions&quot; have been found to be fronts for elites.

I definitely agree with the idea that social media has created a bunch of &quot;odd&quot; groups and a ton of division, but sometimes I wonder what the alternative is.<p>It seems like prior to social media we had mass media and that served as basically the forcing function, there was a more national concept of shame.<p>Nowadays the concept of social shaming doesn&#x27;t really work because you have competing factions with belief systems that are so far apart that all you really get is shaming &quot;within the group&quot;.

The crazy part of the babel myth is that it tells a store of what seems like the first time in human history where people of all backgrounds came together, lived in peace, made technological progress, and god couldn&#x27;t stand that, as it wanted the people dumb, scared and fractured.<p>It seems the pattern keeps repeating to today.

And they are going to continue to be stupid going forward as well :(

&quot;If you really give people what they want, and give them ability to communicate what they want, bad things happen&quot;

tl;dr - social media