A knife generally tears, it separates the material in front, causing it to tear ahead of the blade.

It is exactly what people want. You are overestimating the lowest common denominator.

If I can’t get the basic premise of something in a few seconds, I move on

Honestly, great summarization of how knowledge, society, and understanding is crumbling.

All the important, hard, things take concerted effort to understand.

Edit: This has nothing to do with the clickbait title

We’re not pretending, this is an asinine view.

Two things can be true at once. It’s surprising how difficult a concept this is to grasp.

Social media accelerated this, it provides the vehicle in which to make culture wars the only thing at the front of people’s minds. It accelerated division and hate, as these improve platform attention.

Let’s not even talk about the death of critical thinking which just allows this to happen to greater effect.

Rising wealth inequality because a side effect of us not fighting a class war which is a side effect of us being completely focused on culture wars which is a side effect of social media.

There’s an entire chain here and social media underpins most of it’s acceleration

I mean that applies to literally everything

Everything that you make an investment in has some measure of liquidity.