Oddbean new post about login | logout How much more do devices impact this than the modern industrial education system, book censorship, and printed propaganda of the past?
They amplify 📢 in the old days you might spend a couple hours tops per day getting indoctrinated at school. Maybe you also had a parent who listened to too much radio or was always reading the papers and would spread the virus at the dinner table. Nowadays young ppl have a non-stop stream in their hand at all waking hours of the day! https://media3.giphy.com/media/aqSl7Dw5HTojK/giphy.gif
True. But I wonder if the old ways lose efficacy over time and hence the new ways have a similar impact at their peak to the peak impact of the old ways.
Valid point. Something I think about often is the fact that the US had one of the highest education standards on earth until the Vietnam war when young people were vehemently and vocally opposed to govt actions, and this was the exact point point in history when our education standards started to nosedive. Surely no accident there, and probably this intentional nerf’ing of education has had probably the biggest impact of anything to date.. maybe the devices are just a helpful tool to maintain the status quo at this point..
That is a major coincidence. You’re probably onto something there. When was fluoride pushed into public water systems?
Honestly much later than I expected! I was gonna guess 1971 haha (sauce Wikipedia so take with a grain of 🧂) says later in the article the US made it a standard in 2012 https://image.nostr.build/162ebc2ddb2745608f4a2409ed3cbc4ada96b09a72b2a70b11dac21829fab976.jpg
