The anti-intellectual creed that "our ignorance is as good as your knowledge" predates the internet, but goddamn, has the internet helped it grow into an ugly, bloody tangle of toxic thorns.
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I'm just so tired, you guys. I feel like I could rant about this for a week and not fully articulate my fear of what happens if we uproot our entire cultural foundation of truth with nothing to replace it but shonky opinions. It's a long, dark Brexit of the soul.
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It is easier to destroy than create; we already knew that. So it only makes sense that tearing down our cultural trust in the very concepts of journalism, science, history, sociology - of REALITY - is so much easier than all the long centuries it took to build, fix, build again.
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We live in the Disinformation Age, and we have no roadmap for what to build in the ruins of the world we're in the cavalier process of destroying - because, like the Brexiteering UK government, too many responsible parties only want to have their fun NOW, not plan for later.
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I think we can fix things. I don't think we're past that point. But the process of getting there is so goddamn exhausting, so dispiriting. We're all slouching towards Bethlehem at this point. I only wish more people realised.
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