Peter Cohen on Nostr: On balance, I don't think we as a population are any dumber than we were 50 or 100 ...
On balance, I don't think we as a population are any dumber than we were 50 or 100 years ago. It's that technology has allowed stupidity and ignorance to be weaponized much faster than ever before.
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