While the printing press ushered in religious wars, but ultimately the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution, our current communications revolution is causing pre-Enlightenment mindsets to spread like wildfire. The belief that "everything happens for a reason," or, "there are no coincidences," leads people to preposterous conclusions, where the internet is turning the entire world into Russia, just one big, global zone flooded with shit. Our species is backtracking intellectually while offloading more and more of our cognitive load to machines, and I don't think that ends well.

I am so sick of everything has to be a conspiracy. Sometimes, almost all the time actually, things are exactly what they look like, and no God or secret cabal of Democrats or globalists or terrorists is pulling the strings. People need to get much better at accepting the philosophical wisdom of "Shit Happens." Whatever happened to "Shit Happens?" Did the internet kill it?