Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week agoHumans have always been stupid but today technology has made it easier for the dumbest among us to be more influential than any stupid person of any prior era. This, we are in the golden age of stupidity.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
You could say the exact same thing about the smartest people being able to spread their message, and the two effects cancel out.
Same age as any other, more or less. These are human problems that won’t be fixed until we’re no longer human.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
It requires more effort to spread intelligent ideas.