I'm just hoping it brings out an explosion of new thought and not less thought. Will likely be both.
I have found there to be less diversity in thought on the internet in the last 10 years. I used to find lots of wild ideas and theories out there on obscure sites. Now it seems like every website is the same, talking about the same things
I find this difficult to understand. There was a great explosion of conspiracy theories in the last ten years, so you should be seeing more of it.
Even the conspiracy theory community has become like this. What used to be a community of passionate skeptics, ufo-ologists, and rabid anti-statists has turned into the most overtly boot licking right wing apologists who apply an incredible amount of mental energy to justifying the actions of what is transparently and blatantly the most corrupt government in American history, so long as that government is weaponized against whatever identity and cultural groups they hate