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		drewbeck 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is modern politics like cancer? Is your assertion that if those philosophers hadn’t written then we wouldn’t have a misinformation problem on the internet?

nis0s 6 months ago [–]

I think the intelligentsia sold everyone on these ideas really well. It’s hard to say what would have been, but people work with the frameworks they’re given, either directly or indirectly, and some frameworks muddy the waters.

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