(2017-02-23) Manson Everything Is Fucked And Im Pretty Sure Its The Internet

Mark Manson: Everything is Fucked and I'm Pretty Sure It's the Internet's Fault

*They were so caught up in their dreams and visions and hopes that they forgot. They forgot that the world doesn’t run on information. People don’t make decisions based on truth or facts. They don’t spend their money based on data.

The world runs on feelings. (Fake News)*

Technologists envisioned a highly-educated global population that would tap into the infinite wisdom available at their fingertips

If I read an article today telling me that processed grains are harmful, there will be three articles telling me tomorrow that they’re fine, and then another article telling me why all of the previous articles were wrong. By now, I don’t even care anymore. I don’t trust any of them

The problem is when this level of distrust is turned on a people’s own political system, that political system will corrode itself.

What’s happening in politics isn’t disruption. Disruption implies that there is some superior system ready to swoop in and take democracy’s place. Disruption implies that the chaos is being caused by a greater level of order, not a lower one. But right now, we’re being disrupted not by the higher and more advanced parts of our nature. We’re being hijacked by the lower ones