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drawkbox ◴[] No.19189449[source]
The truth is the internet is teaching the biggest lesson ever in critical thinking and getting your information from many sources across spectrums, countries, divides and more to find out what is really going on.

People must think about why they are hearing about something and the layers and goals that are behind it and drive it.

Let's hope that people see these disinformation and misinformation efforts as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day, or make decisions based on fear, in those cases the populace is easy to manipulate, divide and conquer.

When something it too salacious or fits a narrative too perfectly, someone/group is marketing you in a direction and has you possibly in an active measure.

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pjc50 ◴[] No.19189488[source]
I think one of the lessons of the history "accelerate the contradictions" ( http://acceleratethecontradictions.blogspot.com/2010/04/acce... ) is that putting the public in a situation where they have to improve lest there be a huge disaster, is a good way to get a huge disaster.
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1. dredmorbius ◴[] No.19190231[source]
All the children cannot be above average.
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2. sovietmudkipz ◴[] No.19190600[source]
They can if the children of tomorrow are compared with children of yesteryear, and children’s education system has improved such that children of tomorrow excel at all the metrics measured.

For example, how much “smarter” are children today than children of 1000 b.c.?