What a sad, pathetic waste of time this comment was.

I see you are giving Twitter-length one-line reaction comments at least 4 times so far on this Lemmy posting (“‘Evil is being defeated by God’: Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates after Pope’s death”). Anything beyond Twitter-thinking length must be too much for your mind right now. I’m sorry you suffer from such literacy problems and egoism, it is very common on Lemmy, Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter that people have such low literacy that they are only able to react in negative ways when they can’t comprehend a topic.

This sort of problem of Twitter-length literacy simple-think “Hate Harder” values and reactions to complexity has even overtaken the White House in January 2025 where I live, the United States of America. It’s a very sad and sick situation I am living under in April 2025 :(

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“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of ‘being informed’ by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information–misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information–information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee