A new Dark Age?

@Yulianna You shouldn't... Not anymore...

@MistyCee yes, i do insight and i do depressing...

to avoid too much of the latter, i limit sharing the former.

@ozgirl512 🤗

@Burnley123 too much of any one thing can lead to disaster... Be it drugs, speed or wrong information

@ozgirl512 It's not necessarily about too much information. It's more about the quality of it and the lack of journalistic standards. Primary reporting is costly and time-consuming. Putting a conspiracy on the internet takes nothing.

I'm not sure there ever was a golden age. There has always been media bias and propaganda. It has got worse though.

@Burnley123 I agree about the golden age comment, if it existed it was post WW2.
As regards too much information, I think it's a mix of quality and quantity of information.
One radical piece of journalism won't do much... But repeat it often enough

@SW-User i would disagree with you on only facet of your post.

we are not headed for another dark age. we are in another dark age and it is only the dying echo of reason that fools you into thinking it is not already here.

be brave. you will need to be and we others who still hear that echo need you to be as brave as we try to be.

don't give in.

@Jenny1234 And that brings us back to the dark ages. Thank you for confirming my original post.

@hippyjoe1955 you never, ever make any sense

@Jenny1234 To closed minds like yours..... Did you hear about the undertaker in England who observed the death rate since the beginning of the jabs is up 300%? Probably not. You only listen to 'official' sources.

@Graylight the pitchforks was a metaphor lol... But am those things you mentioned contribute to where we are right now

@Entwistle and of course there’s always television 😀

But no, it [i]is[/i] a nice hat for her age and general deportment

@Entwistle There’s also the change that once, if I had a problem or a worry, I would speak to my friend about it and we’d discuss a solution, and if we needed more information than the group could offer we'd maybe involve the friends or involve people those friends recommended, or search around for the information we needed.

Now that friend would very likely have a phone in her hands and be on the Internet within moments of hearing my problem.

Part of what makes humans smart is that we blunder around noticing things while trying to do something else, and later we are able to put those then-irrelevant things together into a new idea. If we go straight a solution and stop looking, we lose that advantage.

There’s an example I once came across.

Fill a room with boxes and put meat into one of the boxes. Put a dog with a severe cold into the room. Because of its congested nose it cannot scent the meat, so it goes hungry.

Now put a healthy dog into the room and lock it in. It immediately scents the meat and eats it, but eventually starves to death because it cannot escape from the room.

Now put the first dog (with the congested nose), back into the room and lock it in. It immediately escapes from the room through a hole in the back wall. It found the hole the first time it was in the room, while it was blundering around trying to find something to eat.

@newjaninev2 Yeah there seems to be q lot less human interaction nowadays.
I've seen groups of 4,5 people say a t a table in a bar all looking at their smartphones. Sad in some ways.

@Neoerectus hopefully for the rest, you're right

@TheConstantGardener what you say is true... But how many people were in Mao's army? Or supported Hitler or Lenin.... The extremists do shape what the bell curve does

@ozgirl512 I agree with that but conditions in our modern societies are a long way from the horrific circumstances almost the whole population found themselves in pre revolutionary Russia, China or post Versailles Germany. The extremes make a lot of noise but they are very small in number.

@MistyCee all true

@Lilymoon public funded internet and news outlets can't exist. At least we hope nobody ever tries that!

@TheLordOfHell that's beyond our control...