• Snot Flickerman
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    8 hours ago

    We absolutely must address how dangerous the internet is to our society. I think we as a species simply can’t handle the destructive potential of the internet (and ditto for News bubbles like Fox).

    Marshall McLuhan argued similarly in the 1960’s about the dangers of rushing forward with mass media, and stipulated that we had yet to understand the cultural impacts of language and writing, let alone (at the time) new media like telephones, radio, and television.

    Traditionally humans have rushed headlong into any and all new communications methods without considering long-term consequences first, and study comes much later, if at all.