Reply To: “Price check on aisle 7!”

March 19, 2026 at 11:05 am #1967909

athelstane

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As for people’s behavior, the internet – which I tend to think was created as a trap and enslavement device from the start – has put MASSIVE amounts of power into the hands of a very few people, precisely the type of people who should have never had ANY power at all. It has also made it possible to present rare, oddball weirdness as normal and common and given people who would never have the guts to say what they’re saying online in real life the power to do so. Unless, of course, what you’re saying goes against certain ‘official’ narratives, in which case you will be hounded, banned, deleted in the fiercest way possible. See ‘trap’ and ‘enslavement’ , above.

This has occurred, agreed. But I think there’s a more fundamental relationship. There’s an inverse relationship between the ease of communicating and the quality of what is communicated.