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Rebecca Solnit on How We Got Hacked
In the Guardian, official smartest woman in California Rebecca Solnit looks at a variety of ways to understand the Trump victory, including the way our brains have been hacked:
“Social media arose like a school of sharks in the information pool and began to devour the economic base of the news industry, to undermine the filtration systems that had limited the spread of hate, lies, misinformation and disinformation. But to talk about it as an information pool is to underestimate how much it has changed consciousness itself, how addictive and how distorting it is, how it manipulates values and emotions and beliefs.”
Right on!!