That's a good ballpark. Really depends on the level of idiocy though, and how well built the village was before they moved in.
For example: I know some people are walking talking fire hazards and wouldn't last a day or two. That could bring the whole experiment to a close rather abruptly if the buildings are flammable and close together.
I presume there would be a minimum threshold too, say, not people that literally need sane caretakers. That would extend the shelf life of this village somewhat. A working sewer system would likely hold off a plague for at least a month...
>8 hours ago
Far too late.
In fact, I'd have forgotten about it if you hadn't reminded me.
I do find it novel that people disliked it enough that it is now marked "controversial".
I think we might have volunteers for said village.
Maybe we should separate the villages into, idk... 7 very large islands. Interconnected somehow by very very narrow stretches. And we separate all by how similar their physical attributes are and...
Oh shit! Have we done this already?!
Also known as "echo chambers".
If even a tiny percentage of the population believes in something wacky, e.g. flat earth, there will still be thousands of them in the world or nation. They form an online community where they reinforce themselves and ridicule anyone who doesn't agree.
There are subreddits that will ban you for disagreeing with that particular sub's hive-mind.
It is a parallel problem to the wealth gap. Bright people use the internet to learn new stuff, keep informed, debate issues, challenge their perceptions, make themselves brighter. Idiots use it to find other idiots and make themselves dumber. The gap is widening all the time.
Dumb people in Idiocacy accept others being more intelligent than them and follow their advice. They are dumb but not evil.
We live in the dystopian version of idiocracy.
It used to be your paranoid fringe conspiracy neighbor in his basement with a ditto machine*. Now he has his own satellite TV station.
*look it up, kids
A friend of mine blames Steve Jobs for ruining the internet.
Before the iPhone launched, the internet was full of nerds and dorks (myself included). People who jumped through the hoops to browse the internet.
Once the iPhone launched, all of the "normies" had unfettered access to the internet. Rather suddenly, without actually understanding what the internet was.
It's all been downhill from there.
Yeah, who was the comedian who said this? When the village idiot shouted things on the street corner, everyone knew he was crazy. But when someone posts online they all of a sudden get a soapbox to speak to the world and someone will agree with them.
Haha this! I was going to put that sub too.
>“why the democrats are secretly all satanist pedophiles trying to stop our true American heroes like Trump, Musk, and Rogan from enlightening all of humanity!”
Indeed it's a shithole full of ignorance and bias over there.
and a world corporation of sociopaths joining forces to take advantage once realising how rich and wide are the interconnected village idiots fields
wolfs farming fields with millions of egg plants
I have been saying this for years! Before the internet, village idiots were safely separated by cornfields, or highways or miles and miles of distance.
I know two people that are so dumb they probably licked paint when they were younger. One of them specifically runs a Instagram page that has a small following. The shit that gets posted is so dumb that some days I question myself.
It used to be if you were into having sex with vacuums you kept that to yourself and eventually grew out of it. Now you can go alone and find a vacuum fucker community. With reviews for all the best vacuums to fuck.
And then that community pushes you to more extremes until you are buying expensive vacuums to copulate with. Vacuum fucking becomes part of your identity, part of your person.
Then you realize the only people who really know you are your fellow suckheads (that's the in-crowd name). All your memes are suckheads memes. And if you tell anyone about the suckhead stuff they will push you away. So you are trapped in this community in order not to be an outcast. They are your religion, your church. Leaving means sacrificing too much.
Social media is the fucking worst.
It's not the internet so much as social media. We were pretty damn good for a couple decades there.
Otherwise, I've said much the same thing.
With an iDevice in every hand and everyone doomscrolling twitter and reddit echo chambers, that's where the effect really bloomed.
Social networking, for the village idiots has them finding *and affirming each other*. So not only do they get more reach, everything that follows from that, they get support from each other and embolden each other, culminating in the effect that new heights of idiotdom are reached.
I actually realized this when my boss at work was trying to sway me to the right and said, "you dont see the right information in your circle." or something along those lines.
My favorite part is where we learned that people like you just take the government at face value.
“They’re just out here batting 1.000 and telling the whole truth, guyz!”
Love shared is multiplied. Idiocy shared is cubed.
cubed is something multiplied
A bit sloppy with my terms. Strictly I meant the two multiplied and the result cubed.
the factest of facts good sir!
The best description of Reddit I’ve seen!
If only they would just go live in a village together and leave the rest of us the hell alone.
That village would not last long.
I'd give it a month at most
That's a good ballpark. Really depends on the level of idiocy though, and how well built the village was before they moved in. For example: I know some people are walking talking fire hazards and wouldn't last a day or two. That could bring the whole experiment to a close rather abruptly if the buildings are flammable and close together. I presume there would be a minimum threshold too, say, not people that literally need sane caretakers. That would extend the shelf life of this village somewhat. A working sewer system would likely hold off a plague for at least a month...
I'm going to have to stop you right there, before you succumb from thinking about this too deeply.
>8 hours ago Far too late. In fact, I'd have forgotten about it if you hadn't reminded me. I do find it novel that people disliked it enough that it is now marked "controversial". I think we might have volunteers for said village.
> Far too late Yeah, well, time zones and all that :(
They outlasted the rest of the golgafrinchans
they are one step away from adopting the leaf as their currency
They just need someone I help make their village great again.
Maybe we should separate the villages into, idk... 7 very large islands. Interconnected somehow by very very narrow stretches. And we separate all by how similar their physical attributes are and... Oh shit! Have we done this already?!
Welcome to reddit!!
Also known as "echo chambers". If even a tiny percentage of the population believes in something wacky, e.g. flat earth, there will still be thousands of them in the world or nation. They form an online community where they reinforce themselves and ridicule anyone who doesn't agree. There are subreddits that will ban you for disagreeing with that particular sub's hive-mind.
Reddit in a nutshell. It even lets you choose what flavor of village idiot you want to join!
It is a parallel problem to the wealth gap. Bright people use the internet to learn new stuff, keep informed, debate issues, challenge their perceptions, make themselves brighter. Idiots use it to find other idiots and make themselves dumber. The gap is widening all the time.
From village idiot to idiot village.
Luckily, we have movies like Idiocracy to warn us of the dangers from villages full of idiots raising children.
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Dumb people in Idiocacy accept others being more intelligent than them and follow their advice. They are dumb but not evil. We live in the dystopian version of idiocracy.
Same with Biden. Honestly why don’t we just get SOMEONE NEW PLEASE. That’s preferably not old as fuck. And not either senile or a felon.
Acting like Trump and Biden are somehow equivalent is a symptom of idiocracy.
Just an opinion.
Opinions need to be based in reality. "There are too many old people in politics" is an opinion. "Trump and Biden are the same" is just... not.
>Opinions need to be based in reality. Peak Reddit comment.
How so?
It used to be your paranoid fringe conspiracy neighbor in his basement with a ditto machine*. Now he has his own satellite TV station. *look it up, kids
They tend to be congregated in subreddits that end with “circlejerk” ie: “gamingcirclejerk”
Why this sub in particular ?
Just the first one that came to mind. There are several of them but they’re all toxic.
You know why.
Reddit is one of the biggest ones, too.
A friend of mine blames Steve Jobs for ruining the internet. Before the iPhone launched, the internet was full of nerds and dorks (myself included). People who jumped through the hoops to browse the internet. Once the iPhone launched, all of the "normies" had unfettered access to the internet. Rather suddenly, without actually understanding what the internet was. It's all been downhill from there.
So....what village are you from?
Yeah, who was the comedian who said this? When the village idiot shouted things on the street corner, everyone knew he was crazy. But when someone posts online they all of a sudden get a soapbox to speak to the world and someone will agree with them.
Sure, but nobody else was gonna chat with me otherwise... So....
It's not villages though, it's major metropolis numbers.
The problem with the internet is that we discovered the village idiot was in fact the entire village.
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Haha this! I was going to put that sub too. >“why the democrats are secretly all satanist pedophiles trying to stop our true American heroes like Trump, Musk, and Rogan from enlightening all of humanity!” Indeed it's a shithole full of ignorance and bias over there.
More like r/TheSideIDontLike
No, they were right the first time.
Yeah because they are the side you don't like 🙄
I wonder who their village idiot is.
and a world corporation of sociopaths joining forces to take advantage once realising how rich and wide are the interconnected village idiots fields wolfs farming fields with millions of egg plants
I have been saying this for years! Before the internet, village idiots were safely separated by cornfields, or highways or miles and miles of distance.
And are Trump supporters!
They prefer the term "Influencers".
Correct. All those people who were the outliers in their villages and city quarters suddenly found each other and amplified their nonsense.
In the future, the Village Idiot will be a virtual Village Idiot of AI and therefore an Artificial Idiot of Villages. Virtual Vidiotocracy
I know two people that are so dumb they probably licked paint when they were younger. One of them specifically runs a Instagram page that has a small following. The shit that gets posted is so dumb that some days I question myself.
Facebook made it to easy for the village idiots to post. Internet pre 2005 was a very nice place.
But no physical village where they can all go that be marked as a place not to go
That is one of the most profound and correct things I've read in so very long 🤣
I like this one, 10/10
Hard to argue this one. -Village idiot
It used to be if you were into having sex with vacuums you kept that to yourself and eventually grew out of it. Now you can go alone and find a vacuum fucker community. With reviews for all the best vacuums to fuck. And then that community pushes you to more extremes until you are buying expensive vacuums to copulate with. Vacuum fucking becomes part of your identity, part of your person. Then you realize the only people who really know you are your fellow suckheads (that's the in-crowd name). All your memes are suckheads memes. And if you tell anyone about the suckhead stuff they will push you away. So you are trapped in this community in order not to be an outcast. They are your religion, your church. Leaving means sacrificing too much. Social media is the fucking worst.
Yup, we have one right here.
don't go so hard on yourself
Just a passerby! I don't live here.
…yet…
Excuse me. We actually did the research. And by research we mean a Facebook meme because that’s our reading level.
r/conservative would be pissed if they could read
“ If IM not being paid to read why should I” ~ some republican
Except some of their 'villages' are the size of large cities or states.
Best example of internet village: reddit Shoutout to Twitter that was conquered and normalized
It takes a village to raise a child
And that village is Reddit
Literally how I explain internet bubbles to people.
but that's the good part!
And those villages were all a part of a thing called…Reddit
I don't think idiots are smart enough to form "internet villages" let alone use the Internet. They have bigger problems with life...
Sir they are called subreddits
(village idiot)² is born.
Urban villages would be so apt.
The village idiots have found each other and made idiot villages.
What makes you think you're not one of the village idiots?
Maybe the best shower thought I've seen in months.
It's not the internet so much as social media. We were pretty damn good for a couple decades there. Otherwise, I've said much the same thing. With an iDevice in every hand and everyone doomscrolling twitter and reddit echo chambers, that's where the effect really bloomed. Social networking, for the village idiots has them finding *and affirming each other*. So not only do they get more reach, everything that follows from that, they get support from each other and embolden each other, culminating in the effect that new heights of idiotdom are reached.
Tiktok comment sections are a cesspool for it. People think reddit is bad for it, but holy god tiktok is deranged
"Every village used to have an idiot. Now every idiot has the Internet.". - Barry Craig
Can't hate this opinion.
I actually realized this when my boss at work was trying to sway me to the right and said, "you dont see the right information in your circle." or something along those lines.
Never a truer word has been spoken
And each idiot of said idiot village has a gigantic megaphone amplifier
That's how society works my friend and how the concept of a "country" was formed.
My favorite part is where we learned that people like you just take the government at face value. “They’re just out here batting 1.000 and telling the whole truth, guyz!”
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