Our "Uniquely Stupid" Decade

 

Stupid is a structural problem when you no longer have people challenging others’ confirmation bias.

Jonathan Haidt Social psychologist at NYU
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Our "Uniquely Stupid" Decade

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Americans aren’t dumb—at least individually—but something changed in the last ten years that made the country-as-a-whole stupid in an unprecedented way. And yes, it was social media. What was once a place to share cute kid pics became a place to score hits on enemies and undermine institutional trust, and the viral nature of social media empowered the far political extremes, misinformation networks, and an unholy number of trolls. Can a country afflicted by structural stupidity survive?

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