it's just a generic talk about the paradox of ease of access thatis actually making it less accessed

Ppl are softer now. Its easy to mold people

The problem lies in peoples lack of conviction.

we should be more informed now then we ever were through history because everything you want to know is a google search away.... yet it's moved the complete opposite direction

I would disagree.

Its like people dont want to argue the facts, its easier to have the screen tell then

informed about what?

being informed is not a binary yes/no state

Just things in general. Including science.

i dont know what we should be informed about

Does me knowing what pewdiepie's last video was about, count as knowledge?

Depends on how relevant it is

Since its a sign of culture

knowledge must be relevant?

And people really want him gone for a reason

Informed about Christmas music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlXaI3m2eqk

Christmas used to be important :(

even what is relevant depends on how you define it
something can be relevant to your personal life, or it can be relevant to what you care about for the world

But see, people dont even value much anymore

So whats relecant doesnt matter

Don't they?

They value their own comfort

Thats about where a peraons relevancy stops at

I agree with you people only argue and whats important to them, like 2 nerds arguing star wars vs star trek

Idk, you two seem to think people have changed a great deal. I'm not seeing it.

But if neither cared, its easy to change their mind

Or fill with misinformation

not knowing the policies behind the abortion debate because you spend all day in echo chambers of equally uninformed opinions, spouting the echo chamber byline and not having so much a stance as a tribalistic confimation biased emotional response is the type of change it is about. Before all of this everyone involved needed to research and learn about it, now social media eliminates any and all research and instead forces us into echochamber circle jerks of equally uninformed people @Paradox

So, you think me knowing timmy, tommy, and johnny's opinions on the matter aren't knowledge?

Id say stick to your value. Yea its the echo chamber, but there is also a problem when you dont hold values

Coherence is important

Thats why opinions matter, they make patterns even in non democracies

so i guess the context of the information we're talking about is politics then

not information that is directly applicable to peoples individual lives

Well everything can be politics though

I dont mean to complicate things

Like i get your trying to narrow it down

yeah but i don't think one single person can know every policy in a country that in some way affects their life, not even experts

so we specialize on what we're interested in, or we just have opinions without knowing many facts

a single expert now is drowned out by a thousand much louder pundits who don't know shit about what they are talking about though

it comes down to how people choose to spend their rare time