I have to wonder if repeated Covid infections are going to become the new lead poisoning. I don’t know how to put it into words, but I feel like everyone is just less… knowledgeable? Worldly? More out of touch? Than they used to be.

There have always been people who believe what they were told uncritically. And there were always people who would take advantage of it.

I wonder though, with so many generations of grifters and grifteds is it possible that societies just run out of people who can say no to the grift either because they figured out its a grift or they’re just skeptical enough to refuse it on pure gut instinct? The population of believers increases so much that those people wind up in positions that used to be filled with people who would attempt to figure out an objective truth before passing along the idea/information/claim.

Yesterday there was a blogpost re-posted on hexbear from an IT consultant who’s analysis of the AI industry hype is that its do dangerous to careers/jobs for anybody who says anything critical of AI integration. This feels similar. So many people are saying “the emperor has the most amazing clothes” that it feels insane to say “but the guy is walking around naked.”