Trump stops rally to get a doctor for a woman who had passed out in the stands. Journos write this headline
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When I first read 1984 I thought it overly exaggerated how quickly people forgot or were willing to forget the cost and availability of chocolate rations and who they were at war with. I also thought that most people in first-world countries had reached the psychological level of self-actualization.
Now I see that I was wrong on both counts.
There was an episode of South Park where they travel to the future and everybody is part of a "science!" religion.
At the time I thought, "this is funny, but that's not how science works."
But Trey and Matt were right. That's not how science works, but it is how people work.
We carry a brick containing essentially infinite knowledge in our pockets, but people choose to be retarded.