On 14/04/2011 06:11 PM, Darren New wrote:

> I mean, there were always stupid gullible people. But until you gave
> them something like the internet, where everyone in the country could
> hear them and find other stupid gullible people, the few rational people
> around them could keep them in check by saying "No, sorry, that's stupid
> and gullible, please keep that to yourself."
>
> But now you can get on the internet and get all the reinforcement of
> stupid ideas you need and ignore all the objections thereto by simply
> not looking at them.

That doesn't explain why this phenomenon seems to be largely unique to 
America.

> I personally think it was basically harmless until you gave the loonies
> a platform where they could reach other loonies without the rational
> people hearing them.

Yeah, probably...

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