There are no titles you can earn to grant credibility to what you’re saying. On social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, discourse is the only variable that will either make you popular, infamous or ignored. This is an important thing about the internet that no one seems to realize: it is insanely good at making people seem equally intelligent. If you put it out there and it’s packaged in a seducing enough manner, there is an audience for you. Internet changed that for it democratized access to information and gave everyone with a modem equal opportunity to become an educator. The Greatest Trick the Internet Ever Pulled People paid obscene money to go there and learn how shit works.
Before the internet, college were the preferred destination where to get education. It’s about truth being “the property of an elite.” It’s about people coming from more fortunate background, who went to college, telling everyone else what to think and how to conceptualize the world. See, the issue isn’t that the Earth is flat or not. Because Flat Earth theories are very much an internet thing.
Vodka is on me, comrad Khrushchev.”īut internet happened and Flat Earth theories became a thing again.Īnd it’s interesting to me, because we can deduce so much from the lowest common denominator of internet idiocy about our collective online self-destruction. He must’ve said something in Russian akin to: “ Shit. This is a non-problem that’s been solved in 1961 when Yuri Gagarin was shot in space. Plus, science did an awesome job at explaining why the Earth looks the way it looks. Shuttle launches were televised for decades, so I have no logical reason whatsoever to believe someone who studied, trained and networked all his life to go to space is lying to me.
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