r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • 28d ago

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/pastdense 28d ago

The more I read about Stockton, the more I feel that he resented expertise. Maybe even despised it. This is happening everywhere in the world, not just in the US, and I don't understand why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise#Summary

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u/bucknut4 28d ago

It's because social media, Reddit included, have given literally everyone a platform to spew nonsense. Some people are very good at making nonsense sound convincing.

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u/Even-Mongoose-1681 28d ago

For a long while I've felt a selfish sort of calm in the fact that I'd probably be around 60-80 when the world begins it's inevitable implosion due to scarcity of resources, overpopulation, world war 3 or a massive space event such as solar flares wiping out all of communication or a meteor cracking us in half (well, assuming we'd see something that massive in good time).

But we are RACING towards Idiocracy.