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Law of Viral Inaccuracy: There are more ways to misunderstand a thing than to understand it correctly, so the most viral form is probably inside the erroneous set. Your most widely known idea will be distorted. The story about you that the most people have heard will be false.
The last two sentences would not have followed automatically a generation ago, when editors' judgment rather than virality determined which things were most widely known.
Viral ideas infecting minds and spreading themselves has been a thing worth writing about since at least 1787. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/ …
Interestingly this is about the same time as the creation of the industrial printing press. Suggests that demand for such things was enough to inspire such innovation to begin with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press#Industrial_printing_presses …
I think the stories that most people heard about famous people a generation ago were also false. Think of the predominant stories about JFK, FDR, MLK, in their time. Not really very accurate.
True. But the source of those fables was different. Those were cooked up by the PR-editorial complex.
Why is it that I've never heard any politician make any observation remotely this astute?
Isnt that what #faknews means?
(not a trump fan, but even a broke clock is right twice a day)
You are probably right, but I’d love to know how much casual conversations used to focus on the juicier op-eds.
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