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@thomasfuchs every so often I think about the mix of:
- reputation is fragile and permanent, but easy to shed if you don't care about it
- things are stated confidently as just a function of language now, so it's hard to know who actually knows anything in a sea of confidently-stated opinions (and no reputation/accountability mechanisms to make bad advice stick to a person giving it)
- plus the abdication of journalism
@thomasfuchs and I think that that leads to a lot of people sort of defaulting to the like, [three-orders-of-separation-ish social gestalt] for opinions and trust stuff, which tends towards dichotomy
seemingly especially among who would otherwise "know better"
zone's flooded and the only thing that gets through the like, friend-colleague-acquaintence-average-opinion baseline is the poles of any given thing.