I don’t think it’s so much that people have gotten dumber, there’s always been dumb folk, but the age of social media has made them less fearful of looking stupid.
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
There’s also the compounding effect of being able to hear more voices from around the world thanks to the internet.
Every village has an idiot. These days you don’t need to visit the village to run into their idiot.
And now that it’s easy to do so, they’re banding together to form entire metropoli of only idiots.
As I tend to say: before social media every village had a village idiot. Now the village idiots are connected, more easily to find and spreading their lack of knowledge.
There was a ton of stupid conspiracy theories around the whole clones sheep thing back then. I think looking back on that time period (like two decades ago, not one) the dumb conspiracies were forgotten as they didn’t lead to anything outside of fearmongering.
Same for the moon landing, there are still conspiracies that it was all faked.
of course the moon exists, but it is hollow. it is a reptilian space ship and arrived 12.8k years ago
Nah, it’s a giant spider egg.
Don’t worry, though, when it hatches it will inexplicably lay an egg the same size and density as the first one somehow.
Space Whale, not spider. The spiders are the parasites that live on the egg.
Oh, well, that makes sense then.
No, the earth will not be ok of we do the bare minimum
We aren’t doing the bare minimum. We’re doing less than the bare minimum. That’s the problem.
Oh the earth will absolutly be ok. It’s we that won’t be.
Humans : challenge accepted.
Or in the worst case, all life on Earth won’t be ok.
No, life in general would be fine. It will be (already is) a mass extinction but earth had a couple of those and life will bounce back.
The worst case scenario is turning Earth into a planet with a climate like Venus’s.
A planet that proves the existence of runaway greenhouse effects btw.
It is theoretically possible that life exists there, but multicellular life is considered unlikely, and we’ll probably never get to take surface samples, given it’s been measured at 464 Celsius.
We probably can’t fuck up the planet that badly, but toss in a nuclear exchange to greenhouse effects and an unfortunate volcanic eruption or two?
You say that as it’s not a big deal.
Do you really want to see a world without dolphins, pandas, tigers, anacondas…?
We’d be dead as well, so wouldn’t see them anyway.
Also, the world is pretty cool without dinonsaurs. It will still be pretty cool with what ever comes after what we currently have.
I can’t explain how knowing all the animals you grew up loving will die forever is sad. If you don’t feel it you don’t I guess.
Well, I could imagine it if I wanted to make myself sad. But I, personally, will be dead long before even the last Panda. So it’s really just a hypothetical.
We’re still making incredible advancements. Have you read the stuff on gravitational waves?
The real issue is that scientists have access to twitter and have the same basic urges as anyone else, the urge to correct the people who are wrong.
The Earth is not flat, it’s a hypersphere. It literally explains everything, and yet no one will engage me on that fact
