Nietzsche wrote about it, but I think a term from the SCP Foundation sums it up nicely: some information about our world poses a memetic hazard. If you see the world clearly enough you are forever changed, and not in a good way. Knowledge is not power, it’s a burden you can’t put down that no one can help you with.
Nietzsche wrote about it, but I think a term from the SCP Foundation sums it up nicely: some information about our world poses a memetic hazard. If you see the world clearly enough you are forever changed, and not in a good way. Knowledge is not power, it’s a burden you can’t put down that no one can help you with.
Nicely said. In practice just let your mind slip around it. Until such time as we start to actively fight the evil that is Advertising.