“The tragedy of the Internet is that it has elevated the village idiot to the status of a bearer of truth.”
“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak—people who once only talked at the bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. They were quickly silenced. Now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.”
Making this point certainly did not make me popular on the Internet back in the day. For a more serious treatment of the crisis, see this.
The Tractatus book is beautifully done, and the pop-out model is a great teaching aid when I discuss the Tractatus…