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We've grown fat with information, but are starving for wisdom...

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Asofon@discuss.online⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again:

    The era we call “The Dark Ages” was a period where people simply didn’t write as much down.

    Right now, we can’t get to the shit worth reading. It’s buried and every day going farther and farther down under layers of slop.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eh, I disagree on both parts.

    Lots of information out there, but it’s the equivalent of a Forrest full of virtually identical berries, 90% of which are poisonous.

    And people are broke as fuck these days, you need wisdom to survive like that, and you earn it the hard way.

    It’s just that when they have to devote so much energy to meeting their base needs, they can’t be assed to think about more abstract things.

    Which is why the wealthy are never happy unless everyone else has nothing. When we’re comfortable enough to think ahead, we start asking why there’s any oligarchs to begin with. And their propaganda pitting us against each other isn’t as effective.

    People are wise, you’re just judging fish by how well they can climb trees

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    • Beacon@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I'm not sure why your comment got downvoted. But i don't see how what you wrote disagrees with what op said

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The internet’s greatest strength is that anyone can publish knowledge to it. The internet’s greatest weakness is that anyone can publish knowledge to it.

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  • GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    BINGO, THANK YOU! Just a bunch of entertaining or fake BLANK taken seriously, by the uneducated/ignorant people, but think they know everything & attack those that put in the whole work to know & think outside the box & be educated in diverse areas of life & non-bought people!

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We consume information like Koalas consume eucalyptus.

    We stuff our faces with toxic filler with little to no nutritional value, until we get sick and pass out. Just to wake up and do it all over again.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Big Tech is a momma koala, users are baby koalas, and social media is pap.

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      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And they all have Chlamydia!

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  • bibbasa@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and remember, you are what you eat

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  • MantisToboggon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I grew fat with cheeseburgers.

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  • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not really sure people are fat with information

    I’d say they have tapeworm and everything they consume effectively disappears forever because it was all brain rot virus in the first place

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