• maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yea this. It’s the cigarettes of our generation. “I don’t know, everyone was doing it back then”, we’ll all say.

    And our blind acceptance of it all, to the point of allowing it to replace journalism and politics, will be seen as dumb in the same way we now breath in some cigarette smoke and see it as obviously unhealthy.

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      1 year ago

      I think the dumbing effect it’s having on us as a society might even stop us from ever having realizations like his ever again though