Has been interesting to watch this reverse over the years:

1995: You’re on the internet and talk to people there? And even meet them sometimes? You’re some kind of bad and evil weirdo!

Now: You’re not on the internet and don’t meet people from the internet? You’re some kind of bad and evil weirdo!

Something you realize after living on the planet for a while is that people truly are herd animals and have very little (with rare exception) reflective capacity and don’t really consider anything deeply. When I was young, I thought that most people were more like me than turned out to be true. Most people, though, just go where their friends go and do what their friends do and very little else. That explains phenomena like Nazism and cults more than any other single factor.

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