Internet idiocy: the latest pandemic
To be ignorant has always been easy: Simply sit back in your recliner and watch Fox News.
But to be genuinely misinformed has become exponentially easier with the rise of the Internet, as lies and half-truths gush forth through its twisted web of data-tubes.
In the pre-Web age, publishing something which was patently false required a fair bit of money or, at the very least, access to some dumb schmuck who was willing to publish your ideas for you, and giving legitimacy to ill-conceived or outright moronic views required hours and hours of cherry-picking quotes and struggling to find sources that agreed with you.
Also, Oswald killed Kennedy and the moon landing was real.
