Comment on This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins
Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 8 months agoThe internet shows you what you are looking for. Rather than find several sources to make an informed argument, most people Google something along the lines of why their stupid opinion is correct.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I think that’s already giving them too much credit.
Post an article to social media and internet pseudo-intellectuals will just uncritically adopt the top comment as their opinion, meaning they can be bought for literal pocket change.
There are teenagers whose entire worldview has been lifted from memes. They’ll just casually abuse women because the PCM memes they read in between Overwatch pornography tell them to with pictures of Chad and Wojack.
It’s the reprogramming scene from A Clockwork Orange, only people voluntarily pin their eyes open and the goal is to make them worse, not better.