the power of stupid people in large groups.

This quote is attributed to George Carlin, but I’m sure it’s served as a general axiom for humanity over the past ten thousand years of civilization.

Unfortunately, when tech designers made the Internet easy and accessible to anyone… one of the byproducts is it allowed these groups to form… en masse… globally.

And an even worse byproduct of that is they are no longer gathering digitally, but banding together physically in order to affect things.

I only hope history books don’t write about this era as the one time in history where civilization fell because of mass stupidity.

It’d be a shame, considering how far we’ve come.