What social media does is make visible just how unbelievably stupid most of us are. And then gives the stupid…

What social media does is make visible just how unbelievably stupid most of us are. And then gives the stupid a mechanism to mobilise and coordinate that stupidity, to take over the world. Culturally, it goes one step deeper. 1/3

Compare everything to school, because in schools you’ll find the origin of our entire modern culture. We all go there, that’s where our culture is incubated. Previously those who did well at school academically went on to run the world. Our institutions employed them. 2/3

Now social media completely flips that. It’s the Revenge of the Jocks. Replacing an adult culture of institutional expertise with one thing only. Popularity. The jock currency. These aren’t analogies. It’s what is actually going on, socially/culturally. /end