people: it’s so sad that social media and the Internet have destroyed civil, fact-based discourse in our society and replaced...
people: it’s so sad that social media and the Internet have destroyed civil, fact-based discourse in our society and replaced them with unnuanced outrage fuel
nineteenth-century newspapers: “War and extermination is inevitable! CITIZENS ARISE, ONE AND ALL!!! Can you stand by, and suffer such INFERNAL DEVILS! To ROB men of their property rights, without avenging them? We have no time for comment! Everyman will make his own. LET IT BE WITH POWDER AND BALL!”
I find this perspective exactly 50% comforting and 50% terrifying.
“Oh, thank God, humanity has survived this kind of thing before… except the millions of people who didn’t survive it, so yeah, there’s that.”
To be fair, this specific newspaper article was about Mormons, so it’s more like the couple of dozen people who didn’t survive it