I put “dystopia” into the picture search, and this came up:
So anyway, I’ve been caught on the horns of a dilemma all week. On the one horn, there was some political news out of Iowa, which amounted to, as far as I can make out from a careful examination of the internet, Evangelicals being wrong again. On the other horn, the World Economic Forum is meeting with itself in the picturesque and bracing air of Davos, Switzerland.
My decision was made for me when I came across a series of clips. First, there is this one of some sort of spiritualist exercise being performed over the heads of important people. And then there is this one about how people who have “businesses” like farming and fishing should be held accountable for “ecocide.” But honestly, the worst one is this clip about the real problem with the way things are. That one is, as my children would say, a cringe-fest. In it, Ursula Von der Leyen explains that it’s not climate change or war that is our biggest “concern,” it is “disinformation and misinformation.”
It didn’t help that I happened, at almost the same moment, to come across an unrelated article titled, I kid you not, “Doing your own research is a good way to end up being wrong.” Someone named Philip Bump is reporting for the Washington Post on a study recently performed that, you will not be at all surprised to hear, proved that ordinary people who google things are misguided and will almost certainly fall into the clutches of Q Anon.
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