[mwcampbell]

Then maybe we need to kill mass media once and for all. Keep the global communication network, but let it be all small-scale communities.

[api]

You can do that yourself. Turn off mass media. I’ve done that almost entirely.

The answer is to be your own survivorship bias. Go dig and find good stuff.

[mwcampbell]

That's fine, if we only care about ourselves. I guess the harder part is convincing everyone else to unplug from mass media and not raise their kids on it.

[api]

Impossible without totalitarianism, which is its own somewhat different form of stupid.

Also for parents the game is keeping kids away from it, which is time consuming, and parents are often overworked and don’t have that time.