JA Westenberg
We’ve achieved peak skepticism (trust in institutions at all-time lows, fact-check everything) and peak gullibility (MLM schemes, crypto scams, wellness grifts at all-time highs) in the same generation. This shouldn’t be possible but here we are.
Dec 16 at 12:44amTypefully
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@Daojoan

Maybe there's peak desperation, too.

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@Daojoan
"A mixture of gullibility and cynicism .. became an everyday phenomenon of masses". Totalitarians "based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism" -- Hannah Arendt, *The Origins of Totalitarianism*