You Can’t Just Solve the ‘Fake News’ Problem by Getting Rid of Social Media

Fri, 13 May 2022 18:51:36 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://onezero.medium.com/you-cant-just-solve-the-fake-news-problem-by-getting-rid-of-social-media-1e6be68b8ca0>

"Last week, The Atlantic published “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life
Have Been Uniquely Stupid” by Jon Haidt, the NYU professor and author of The
Coddling of the American Mind
.

Haidt has perfected the art of “Get Off of My Lawn-ism,” or finding ways to
rationalize and codify the idea that things used to be perfect until
[shaking fist] kids came and messed everything up. The market for Get Off My
Lawn-ism is huge. What old white guy doesn’t miss the days when you used to
be able to get away with not taking anyone’s feelings into consideration? What
percentage of Boomers (and beyond) think that the internet is ruining all the
things
?"

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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