Internet gives us many things - entertainment, knowledge and even social relationships. Very nice.

But why are the new top people of the western world things like Elon Musk and Donald Trump? WTF? Whatever ones political leanings are in the world that shouldn't seem right.

We have easier access to more and higher quality information than ever. But our great leaders emphasize more and more primitive techniques: "I Strong - I Win!" "I Smart - I Technology Better!". Does anyone actually use the internet beyond the clickbait?

Musk has said that all his dozens of projects have been cheaper ways to do more. Only the Tesla model 3 seems to be so. Most others have been demonstrable failures or more expensive or have never even progressed to be anything demonstrable. But he will get inevitably to Mars since he gets pretty much all the funding he needs for whatever project he comes up with. Not because of scientific proofs and demonstrations but because he has charisma and the means to market himself for his audience.

For Trump... pretty much the same story. A man who understands the internet and has the charisma and the means to market himself for his audience. Unintuitive and unemotional things like science are less and less relevant.

And all this is a side quirk of the internet. Yesterday we relied on large and probably somewhat corrupt sources like the news. But at least those sources could be criticized. The scientific community could be loudly hard on a specific source. Other competing sources could be hard on other sources.

But how can the scientific community be hard on a tweet? On a youtube video? Or on almost anything else relevant on the modern internet? Anyone can claim anything to be science and almost no one checks the sources and on controversial issues there are always too many corrupt sources for basic checking to even matter.

I like the internet - it gives me many things I love. I hate what it does to mankind. Fuck you, mankind!