And when you have a billion people doing this, that’s a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.

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    8 months ago

    Oh Dr. Satan. I wouldn’t call it insanity so much as willful ignorance. People only want to hear what they want to hear. So they tend to reject anything that’s a new idea or that challenges their world view and it’s easier just to repeat the things they’ve been brainwashed to believe.

    As an LGBTQ plus a bunch of other letters person, trust me when I say I’ve come against this wall many times. People who are relatively young with little world experience trying to tackle huge issues without much wisdom to back it up. The result IS a kind of mass insanity, where people are more willing to trust misinformation and silliness. That truly is a horrible consequence of not being open minded and willing to be educated.