• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    20 hours ago

    I feel like social media has definitely made things worse. Stupid people can find each other and make each other more stupid. Start whole “flat earth” or “anti-vaxx” groups and conventions. Before social media, you might have a couple idiots in your office or village, but they’d typically be surrounded by more average people who could level them out.

    I think the right wing has also been trying to defund education, which isn’t helping. ( For example, https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-deteriorating-schools-repair-bonds )

    There was also a disaster in how reading was taught in the US for the past 20 years, so a lot of kids didn’t really get taught to read well. ( https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ , if you’re interested )