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imiricyesterday at 9:01 PM4 repliesview on HN

What makes you think next time will be different?

Revolutions happen all the time. They all inevitably end up in the same place.

The problem is not them. The problem is us.


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titzertoday at 12:07 AM

The media has a big hand in steering the vast majority of people away from critical thinking and proper outrage to useless, powerless disaffection that leads to impulse buying and binge-watching.

hackable_sandtoday at 12:00 AM

Do you also not wash your laundry?

Gross

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jMylesyesterday at 9:09 PM

> Revolutions happen all the time. They all inevitably end up in the same place.

The optimistic take is that this phenomenon is a characteristic of the _emergence_ of an information age (through the agricultural and industrial ages), and will no longer be true of the internet-connected human.

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jaco6today at 12:31 AM

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