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by lowbloodsugar
1611 days ago
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Stephenson himself appears to have decided that such naivety doesn't help, and has returned to form with 2019's Fall [1]. In it he goes so far as to wonder if the last 300 years of science and facts are coming to an end, and we are returning to the rule of kings and priests. In the past, the kings and priests had a monopoly on what the populace think. For a brief 300 years we had science and facts being communicated to everyone and the kings and priests lost control. Now, the kings and priests have found a way to saturate the communication with noise (and lies and half-truths) so that their messages appear as valid as any other. [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KL61VYS |
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