>we now realise that 70% of the world population, are at best, complete idiots, and they have social media to spout their idiocy That was my point. That's what's changed.

>not much has changed really What's changed is how much of it is in out faces now, thanks to the Internet. It's overwhelming. Before the Internet, national and worldwide news didn't include all the relatively inconsequential stories that we see now. A 12 car pileup in Norway didn't matter to someone living in Los Angeles. A minor celebrity diagnosed as being bi-polar wasn't newsworthy. But now, even stories like that will elicit opinions, with the requisite counter opinions.

>I wonder if it's all just a huge psyop to make us hate each other I'm convinced that whatever powers are actually running world politics had it figured out a long time ago that social media is a perfect tool to foment division and to keep us distracted from the things we should be looking at closely.