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   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/6/25 4:41 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote:   
      
   > Every information technology revolution has it's dark side. Even book   
   > printing:   
      
   You are absolutely right. But the dangers are not level. Social Media   
   was invented to be abusive, to manipulate you. The almighty algorithm   
   exists to feed you ideas. You can argue "Products & services" but it   
   actually is no more than ideas -- buy THIS! Believe THAT! Agree with   
   THEM!   
      
   > Short version: Without book printing there wouldn't have been any witch   
   > hunts.   
      
   Yes and no. The witch "Craze" likely could never happen but there's   
   plenty of evidence for humans ferreting out "Causes" of plagues,   
   droughts (etc) and executing them, going back well before books. The   
   issue is that books allow you to record this shit and then send it   
   across vast distances and even time itself!   
      
   Yes, someone can pick up your book ten or even 50 years later, and   
   "Learn" all that "Knowledge" that others didn't know and thus makes   
   you special...   
      
   But social media was created to manipulate you. It's not that it can   
   be used against it, it's that it was engineered to manipulate you.   
      
      
      
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