So postulates Stephan Pastis, anyway. Click the image to be taken to a larger version at the "Pearls Before Swine" Web page.
On the other hand, the modern world literally could not function without it, so I guess we have to put up with its quirks and quibbles . . .
Peter
EDITED TO ADD: The cartoon above reminds me of this 2008 classic from XKCD:
Nothing much has changed, has it?
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Brings a smile, even though humans were generating a plethora of lies and misinformation a long time before the Internet, AND blaming it on someone or something else.
It's not the internet. It's the content. :)
It's always been the content.
As I remind students, you don't need the internet to have wild conspiracy theories.
TXRed
LOL, true...
I read it on the internet, it must be true.
Ed
In my experience the wild conspiracy theories all came from the Chiefs Mess and usually from the E-8s.
Society functioned just fine before the Internet. And while returning to a pre Internet society would be chaotic event, a strong case can be made that in the long run doing so would be a good thing.
That first 'toon hits really close to the mark. In fact, it's a bullseye.
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