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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsBefore the internet I thought that collective stupidity was caused by poor access to information.
Man was I ever mistaken!
tirebiter
(2,532 posts)Was/is to find the stupidity and exploit just enough of it.
lapfog_1
(29,189 posts)it's that the internet is flooded with so much falsehood that it is hard for many to discern the truth (pick up the signal from the noise). Much like modern communication electronics, it takes a lot of processing to find the signal...
DBoon
(22,338 posts)nt
underpants
(182,585 posts)Think about it:
From cave drawings to movable type to printed illustrations to radio to tv to VCRs to the inter web three industries are always right on top of getting out their product (often a message)
Religion
Porn
and Wrestling (violence)
Exploiting people is the Management side of the worlds oldest profession
empedocles
(15,751 posts)More [bad] information fox viewer type voters, who see conspicuously on fox, Dem the 'socialist' types, - are more likely to think [feel?] those left types are representative of Dems in general, than the low info voters.
NNadir
(33,457 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Trump voters generally demonstrate this, except for the racists who voted for Trump because he is a racist.