The Triumph of the Age of the Idiot

There’s a lesson the world isn’t learning these days, in the 21st century. It’s funny, because it’s an old lesson. And it’s funny, because it keeps being proven in ways big, small, and bigger. But here we are — what is it called when you repeat the same mistakes over and over again? Call it the Triumph of the Age of the Idiot. What do I mean by this? Twitter’s <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiuxNex6PD_AhW6TKQEHfnECCMQxfQBKAB6BAgOEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2023%2F07%2F01%2Ftwitter-imposes-limits-on-the-number-of-tweets-users-can-read-amid-extended-outage%2F&usg=AOvVaw179NZ8Kd1FY_6ZbICxCse4&opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">dying</a>, in case you haven’t heard. The World’s Richest Man bought it — and the press showered him with adulation. A genius! Surely, a visionary! And yet here we are, a few scant months later. And this “business visionary” has just…had to…put in place…viewing limits…for a platform…he’s trying to sell…ads on. LOL. Imagine having to walk into a boardroom. And even if you can bat away the question, “So, what are you going to do about my Mega Brand being right next to a crackpot who thinks vaccines don’t work and Hitler was a pretty good dude, like, for example, ‘Moms for Liberty?’ — even if you can somehow answer that, what are you going to say when the next question is: “What’s the point of me spending Big Bucks on ads…when you’re limiting people to viewing a few minutes worth of tweets per day?” LOL. I can tell you those conversations aren’t likely to go well. What’s the lesson here? It shouldn’t need pointing out, and yet it does. And before I say, let me emphasize, while it’s going to sound political, it’s not. It’s an empirical observation, which anyone can see over and over again in the world today, and I’m about to give you a multitude of examples. That lesson? <a href="https://eand.co/the-triumph-of-the-age-of-the-idiot-85c3ede7fa32">Website</a>