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Kooks reinforcing kooks.
But I'm interested to hear what you have to say about that. Why did social media enable fascism now, and why did fascism exist before it?
We now know that PFAS chemicals cause cancer in humans.
Humans have suffered from cancer since ancient times even though PFAS chemicals are a modern invention.
How can that be?
Mass media was central to fascism because fascism requires the ability to build collective consensus over a broad geography that wasn't easy before mass media. It's hard to otherwise align the morality of millions of people.
I share the concern that social media will be like this, but more potent. And it won't just be a distribution channel, it'll be a breeding ground for the ideas that create extremist ideologies in the first place. It's like the wuhan wet market, but for ideas. The ideas that come from this breeding ground are not necessarily good ideas, just popular ones. And fascism is one subset of bad ideas that have been historically popular.
I really hope mental illnesses would be better treated and that people in very edge cases would spend more time in counseling and maybe less time on the internet.
That also can't be healthy.