We built an entire civilisation around the idea that more information would make us wiser.

[stevefoerster@social.vivaldi.net]

@Daojoan Even back in the late '90s the joke was: "We used to think that if you had infinite monkeys banging away on typewriters that one would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, but now we have the Internet and know that's not so."

[pier@infosec.exchange]

@Daojoan

We are unquestionably wiser*

The fact that a relatively small number of bad actors have used the tools of information to build obscene wealth and power for themselves doesn’t negate our wisdom, but it does expose the vulnerability of our social structure which, I think, is based on an assumption that the many good people can/will stop the few bad.

So wiser, or better informed, doesn’t necessarily mean we automatically have a better society.

*In my opinion. Not claiming to be the sole arbiter of wisdom, etc.

[boysenberrycider@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan That really isn't the fault of the people reading the information. No-one made the caveat 'you have all this information, but you need to avoid everything eye-catching, engaging, or anything that speaks your language to find the truth'.

It's entirely the fault of the parasites abusing the free-information paradise to spread brain rotting dark pattern ruled social spaces and political brainwashing.

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@Daojoan

noise vs. sound

[_ryekdarkener_@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan

Because we do not want to.