The net effect of the internet was to make the populace as a whole less tethered to facts and data—and more animated by folk stories and something like an oral tradition.
A deep dive in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/american-folklore
A deep dive in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/american-folklore
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Scientists used it for science...
And like conspiracy people had more conspiracy people to bounce conspiracy brain ideas around to build more conspiracies out of...
Rince, repeat.