I grew up before the Internet was mainstream and I don’t remember this. We all had access to basically the same information and some of us still had worse or better ideas than our peers. Access was always only one part of the equation; beyond that, you need the information to be useful and accurate (big problem on the Internet), you need the desire to engage with that information, the ability to process and understand it correctly, the ability to discern when factual information is being cherry-picked or otherwise used in misleading ways …
If you trip over on any of those points or whatever else I’ve forgotten to mention, you come out the other end with bad information, access be damned.
this is why republicans fight tooth and nail to eliminate critical thinking from the curriculum–so much easier to control people when they believe what they’re told without question, instead of choosing a stance based on broad daylight evidence and facts. so now we have a wannabe con man in the white house surrounded by sheep cultist followers who would literally take all the bullets for him
The information was harder to access because it wasn’t available on demand. If you had a question about how something works in the evening it’s not as if you could go to the library to get the answer…
It is not information but the fact the collective don’t own the means of information. The collective will and free thought is restrained. The collective will manifest a violent subconscious rage they will need to briedle but eventually they will get bucked as they lose the reins. Nature always wins! A non discriminate hurricane of a long time coming will reset and aligne what was once askew. Justice is coming the meek shall inherit the world. No war but the class war. The rich will hide in their bunkers, breed with and eat their children. We think tactical nukes will prevent the escalation ladder but even at the top they fight amongst themselves. Celebrate their failures.
I grew up before the Internet was mainstream and I don’t remember this. We all had access to basically the same information and some of us still had worse or better ideas than our peers. Access was always only one part of the equation; beyond that, you need the information to be useful and accurate (big problem on the Internet), you need the desire to engage with that information, the ability to process and understand it correctly, the ability to discern when factual information is being cherry-picked or otherwise used in misleading ways …
If you trip over on any of those points or whatever else I’ve forgotten to mention, you come out the other end with bad information, access be damned.
this is why republicans fight tooth and nail to eliminate critical thinking from the curriculum–so much easier to control people when they believe what they’re told without question, instead of choosing a stance based on broad daylight evidence and facts. so now we have a wannabe con man in the white house surrounded by sheep cultist followers who would literally take all the bullets for him
The information was harder to access because it wasn’t available on demand. If you had a question about how something works in the evening it’s not as if you could go to the library to get the answer…
It is not information but the fact the collective don’t own the means of information. The collective will and free thought is restrained. The collective will manifest a violent subconscious rage they will need to briedle but eventually they will get bucked as they lose the reins. Nature always wins! A non discriminate hurricane of a long time coming will reset and aligne what was once askew. Justice is coming the meek shall inherit the world. No war but the class war. The rich will hide in their bunkers, breed with and eat their children. We think tactical nukes will prevent the escalation ladder but even at the top they fight amongst themselves. Celebrate their failures.