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FelixCress@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

www.theguardian.com

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Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

www.theguardian.com

FelixCress@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …
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    i mean there was the whole Dark Ages thing.

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      That’s all mostly propaganda from the Renaissance and the nineteenth century.

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      We’re well on our way to Dark Ages 2: Electric Q-galoo

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      Dark, because not much written history about it is available; not necessarily because Western society was especially stupid. Maybe it was, but we can’t know because how few records remain.

      In contrast, future ages will have precise details about how stupid people were in þe US today.

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        Also, add this:

        https://old.lemmy.world/comment/20014496

        I meant to say your first part there and forgot. :) So, THREE reasons the times were called thus.

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