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it's funny that you write "my trust in the media has fallen and fallen over the years so my passion to trawl through everything has diminished", while you trust more meme's that are shared on social media to create rage and engagement to serve the business models of these platforms. If you delete people that have a different opinion on social media, you might find discover that over time, you are moving into the same trap as all others that became extremists.

"Society is suffering from delusion or mass psychosis in so many areas and I find it incredible that many do not apply critical thinking and common sense to any profit-making industry" - it seems like all new age persons, you do not trust pharma but rather trust ancient non-scientific health recommendations. I do not fully support the closed data model pharma is pushing, hence my own work with my foundation to open source pharma and AI in health, but it's quite a leap to write that society is suffering from delusion or mass psychosis and do not apply critical thinking, while spreading non-fact-checked meme's yourself.

If you share such strong opinions, call people out for being subject mass psychosis, or telling people that their answer is a typical "Western" answer, you should allow people to react. Deleting them, unfriending them is just pushing you even more in your totalitarian view of this world.

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Prescient and poignant i loved the comparison of media doing our googling for us :)

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