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- Aug 18, 2022
The internet is the most fascinating phenomenon in human communication. Humans rely on being able to verify the accuracy of each other's communications. We have whole subtle microexpressions (and the ability to read them) to help us do this.
But in the pseudonymity of the internet, when people are unable to use the tools we have to verify if people are bullshit merchants, we tend to as a group give even more credence - often unquestioningly - to the information we're being given.
It's like our defences against bullshit having been evaded using technology, we will believe any old shit as long as it aligns with our existing cognitive biases. It alsoappears to kick our urge to form and identify with in-groups into overdrive.
So you have one person saying "YOU KNOW WHAT I EAT ASS" and the rest of the identified group suddenly announce "AH YES I ALSO CONSUME THE ANUS EVERY NIGHT" and by virtue of this crap just not being challenged, it becomes some accepted fact without anyone having attempted to determine whether any ass is being eaten.
(I really wish I was using another example.)
The majority of the things being discussed, fought over and forming youngsters' understanding of the world via the internet are almost certainly not actually happening in reality.
thats a lot of words for for coping that you kid poops on the floor