Social media has unleashed a tsunami of surprisingly popular idiocy, Lorne. It is devoid not just of fact but spreads through a medium where critical thinking is irrelevant if not despised. There's a term to describe these types - Agnorant, people who are extremely ignorant and simultaneously extremely arrogant.
This is a cultural affliction evidencing a diseased society. I did a post about this the other day. It is how a country as advanced and powerful as the United States can experience such terrible outcomes battling threats such as a pandemic. Social cohesion is dissolved in hyper-partisan tribalism.
Welcome to the Lord of the Flies. And you thought that was a work of fiction!
More and more, Mound, I feel we are living out the scenario of a dystopian novel. That it should have come to this gives one really pause when thinking about our species.
Thanks for the new word! I hadn't heard of agnorant, but as a neologism it is most apt.
.. I will see Mound's 'agnorent' & raise it or buttress with 'the bewilderness' which may just be the habitat of the agnorent
More and more I just see & hear 'platitudes' from political meat loaves who know 'Jack' aside from their talking points It's like being tube fed with Pablum or Rice Crispies
Unfortunately, Lorne, the ignorant will always be with us.
ReplyDeleteWhat bothers me, Owen, is the disproportionately large voice they are being given these days.
DeleteSocial media has unleashed a tsunami of surprisingly popular idiocy, Lorne. It is devoid not just of fact but spreads through a medium where critical thinking is irrelevant if not despised. There's a term to describe these types - Agnorant, people who are extremely ignorant and simultaneously extremely arrogant.
ReplyDeleteThis is a cultural affliction evidencing a diseased society. I did a post about this the other day. It is how a country as advanced and powerful as the United States can experience such terrible outcomes battling threats such as a pandemic. Social cohesion is dissolved in hyper-partisan tribalism.
Welcome to the Lord of the Flies. And you thought that was a work of fiction!
More and more, Mound, I feel we are living out the scenario of a dystopian novel. That it should have come to this gives one really pause when thinking about our species.
DeleteThanks for the new word! I hadn't heard of agnorant, but as a neologism it is most apt.
.. I will see Mound's 'agnorent'
ReplyDelete& raise it or buttress with 'the bewilderness'
which may just be the habitat of the agnorent
More and more I just see & hear 'platitudes'
from political meat loaves
who know 'Jack' aside from their talking points
It's like being tube fed with Pablum or Rice Crispies
I think we can agree, Sal, that whatever we call their habitat, it is one we want to steer clear of at all costs.
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