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SethTriggs's avatar

This is such a deep article. I am often conflicted about patriotism, and I at least enjoy the day off I guess. For what it's worth, I hope for you to have as great a holiday as possible given the circumstances.

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

The internet and Information Age was supposed to give us a compendium of human knowledge at our fingertips. We were told that it was supposed to usher in a new age of reason and understanding and acceptance. But we squandered it. We refused to learn from the lessons history taught us and the past mistakes we made. We refuse to learn from the voices of the people who were there and the experts who studied them. But most importantly we refuse to listen to each other, still.

Instead of making it easier to discern truth from fiction we made it easier to spread lies.

I do believe in the goodness of people and I do believe in the goodness that America can be. But I am not naive about its dark history or the dark path it’s potentially headed towards.

I don’t know what’s going to happen in November but in my humble opinion our biggest obstacle we are facing right now is propaganda and misinformation. And most people don’t even know that’s what’s being forced upon us.

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