Whenever I see the name “Babcock,” I think of The Passage.
This kind of obsession is nothing new, but, is (thankfully) rare; as is the case for a lot of diseased behavior.
What is new, however, is the modern, interconnected world (air travel, the Internets Tubes, etc.).
This acts as a multiplier for this kind of thing; affording lone actors a powerful gun platform, and allowing extremists that would normally be confined in small, local quarantines, the capacity to band together.
Not sure what the answer is. There’s talk of changing Section 230; not just from authorities, but also, from many mainstream communities.
On one hand, I think that the ability for minorities to band together, and seek strength and support in numbers, is amazing, but you also get stories like this (and it isn’t really unique).
At the risk of “Godwining” the thread, it could be argued that Hitler wouldn’t have been able to come to power without a powerful and efficient propaganda machine, looking a lot like this, so it predates the Internet.
This kind of obsession is nothing new, but, is (thankfully) rare; as is the case for a lot of diseased behavior.
What is new, however, is the modern, interconnected world (air travel, the Internets Tubes, etc.).
This acts as a multiplier for this kind of thing; affording lone actors a powerful gun platform, and allowing extremists that would normally be confined in small, local quarantines, the capacity to band together.
Not sure what the answer is. There’s talk of changing Section 230; not just from authorities, but also, from many mainstream communities.
On one hand, I think that the ability for minorities to band together, and seek strength and support in numbers, is amazing, but you also get stories like this (and it isn’t really unique).
At the risk of “Godwining” the thread, it could be argued that Hitler wouldn’t have been able to come to power without a powerful and efficient propaganda machine, looking a lot like this, so it predates the Internet.