A new Dark Age?

Reading the papers and articles and yes, posts here...I wonder if a new dark Age is soon to be upon us?

So many people seem to prefer to believe"things" not backed up by facts.

Whether it's the US 2020 election results, the proof that covid vaccines have a legitimate place in combating this disease or even that masks help.

Will we see a surge of pitchfork wielding crowds marching in the streets, tearing down everything they fear?

I get the feeling we're fast approaching a cross roads and the future is unclear...

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Entwistle · 56-60, M

Looking at the news headlines can make you realise people are fed the unimportant stuff for a reason. Keep them passive.
"40,000 new covid infections today in the UK..but hey..look..the queen has a new hat!

ozgirl512 · 26-30, F

@Entwistle true... Look over here at this bright shiny thing...

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@Entwistle do you have a picture?

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@Entwistle Never mind, I found it... the lime green one, right? Definitely not my style, but it looks lovely on her

Entwistle · 56-60, M

@newjaninev2 I was being a little sarcastic. Yet it's true. In times of trouble,hardship people are fed hope in the guise of others wealth.
Often soap operas are increased too,and alcohol prices lowered..keep the people occupied/ignorant.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@Entwistle and of course there’s always television 😀

But no, it is a nice hat for her age and general deportment

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@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.

Entwistle · 56-60, M

@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.