MGS2 predicting the future!

[Nymeria]

A_C_E said:

Nymeria said:
"Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of the larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever “truth” suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large."

This is what I see over and over online and recent years into real life. People don't talk to one another, algorithms create spirals of echo chambers to reinforce worldviews. All one has to see is how dramatically people answer polling differently based on what group they belong to.

The internet has not evolved humans, other way around. Humans have always been this way they just evolved the way information spreads. People used to (and still do) write letters to spread misinformation or write for newspaper columns, its literally nothing new, just a different avenue.

I would argue we may be shifting from organized control to chaotic control.  When media came from a few sources the gatekeepers did have the ability to manipulate.  Now, with no gatekeepers, people seek out validation of world view to manipulate themselves. It's going from Orwell to Huxley type of distopia. 

The key in both is critical thought that constantly asks why we reach the conclusions we do.