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Like there’s not a possibility for imperialistic capitalist democracies to develop a culture/spectacle for producing the exact same effect as you describe, distributed and self perpetuating, without any sort of need for shadowy cabals.
There doesn’t seem to be any sign of it. It would strongly help your point if people weren’t on average much better educated than at any time in our history.
The “People today are dumber than ever” is such an old tired trope. Every generation has said the same thing. Kids these days are stupider than we were, people today are just less educated, blah blah blah.
If it were true then the entirety of humanity by now would be unable to function.
Like there’s a shadowy cabal of hooded billionaires saying “the people have started to vote for Bernie Sanders - we must lobby to reduce education spending so that in 15-20 years people will make worse decisions” <evil laughter ensues>
Our conversation began with your implication that a shadowy cabal is necessary for
There doesn’t seem to be any sign of it. It would strongly help your point if people weren’t on average much better educated than at any time in our history.
I can come back with DOIs if you’d like to read up on the topic.
Hardly. They can both be true.
The “People today are dumber than ever” is such an old tired trope. Every generation has said the same thing. Kids these days are stupider than we were, people today are just less educated, blah blah blah.
If it were true then the entirety of humanity by now would be unable to function.
I didn’t even entertain that argument, so I’m not sure why it would be relevant. Education being better today hardly matters for what I said.
Then I have no idea what you’re on about since that was the start of the entire conversation.
No it wasn’t.
Our conversation began with your implication that a shadowy cabal is necessary for