My son and I were talking about the current state of the world and he acknowledged it can be daunting for youth to find a foothold within the current chaos.
I was telling him that when I was his age we didn't get the barrage of information from all corners. We didn't have cell phones, computers were in their infancy and the internet was still only within the hands of a few academics. Fast forward to today and it's constant flood of opinion much of it unfounded vying for our attention.
We are tempted to think people are stupider than ever but they aren't. They just have much easier access to your eyeballs. Stupidity is regrettably a permanent part of humanity.
When expertise was still valued, most people understood to keep caustic ideas to themselves for fear of being ridiculed. Today, they proudly trumpet them with the certainty that they have a captive audience who agrees with them. The same types of people that Mark Twain ridiculed in his time are alive and well in ours and are no smarter.
If one were to spend their entire day on social media, they would come away in despair that there is no hope for our race. The bottom of the barrel is routinely scraped there.
How we reverse this problem confounds me at the moment. What I do know is that the masses only learn through big consequences which is what will need to happen this time as well. As we finish this historical cycle and look forward to a reset, one hopes that the damage will be kept to a minimum.
Brian Kilmeade who is a blithering idiot over at the FOX cult suggested that we could involuntarily euthanize poor people and just kill them.
Mark Twain, upon hearing that, would just say to himself that it's simply par for the course.
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