- The adage "don't believe everything you read on the internet" from the 90's and 00's has substantially died off.
- People have turned to listening to reply, not listening to understand.
- Death of "the expert", where people believe they're a search away from being an expert on a topic.
- The language of the current divide (Patriots vs Authoritarians) is still instead presented along the partisan axis (Democrat vs Republican).
- Glorification of the 50's prosperity, where the USA was the only major manufacturing power worldwide not decimated by WW2.
All of this is fuel for various forms of civic-oriented intellectual laziness.
- The adage "don't believe everything you read on the internet" from the 90's and 00's has substantially died off.
- People have turned to listening to reply, not listening to understand.
- Death of "the expert", where people believe they're a search away from being an expert on a topic.
- The language of the current divide (Patriots vs Authoritarians) is still instead presented along the partisan axis (Democrat vs Republican).
- Glorification of the 50's prosperity, where the USA was the only major manufacturing power worldwide not decimated by WW2.
All of this is fuel for various forms of civic-oriented intellectual laziness.