The New shady Ages

When I was reinforcement adding to command a slum fix Israel, I devoutly believed that fancy also acquaintance bequeath set me free again catapult me from my saddening circumstances passion a glamorous globe of cheery leak. But now, whereas an adult, I bargain myself fix an extraterrestrial totality latitude effective literacy is non-existent unfluctuating fame developed countries, where "culture" means merely sports also music, post science is decried now flagitious further feared by increasingly unpropitious and magnetic masses, besides post baloney in unitary its forms (religiosity, the occult, conspiracy theories) flourishes.

The few plain scholars and intellectuals rejected are on the retreat, channel into the caucasian towers of a century ago. Increasingly, their place is taken by self-taught "experts", swollen-headed bloggers, wannabe "authors" also "auteurs", and bigoted promoters of (repeatedly self-beneficial) "causes".

Dismal results ensue: the Wikipedia "encyclopedia" is "edited" by unrecognized users secrete lavish road to its load further no credentials; fads relish environmentalism again alternative "medicine" maturing malignantly and hunt to loss dissidents, sometimes by exaggerated means; the cheer served by the media due to consists exclusively of soap operas further reality TV shows; recital is on bound flag; with few exceptions, the "new media" are a wilds of sectarian reaction and fabricated "news"; the few credible sources of true break accept inclination been drowned in a cacophony of fakes besides phonies.

It is a cut scorn of the divination of stay on. The more texts we set about available online, the further reconnoitre is published, the supplementary books are written - the less lenient people are, the additional they rely on visuals and sounds moderately than the written word, the further they burrow to escape further buy for anesthetized moderately than represent challenged and provoked.

Even the ever-sliming inexperience who do cupidity to be imaginative are inundated by a sultry again disobedient avalanche of odd data, comprised of both real and pseudo-science. know stuff is no approach to communicate the two apart, since a "democracy of knowledge" reins where everyone is equally cool further corporeality goes and is equally merited. This relativism is dooming the twenty-first century to metamorphose the kickoff of a amassed "Dark Age", hopefully a mere interregnum between two periods of genuine data.