I really don't think the Internet is creating or even enabling new human social behavior. It just hyper-accelerates it. Now instead of spreading person-to-person or through print, brainworms are exchanged and distributed en masse. People became convinced of a divine mandate to kill themselves before the Internet and they still would if it was gone. Now it just spreads faster.
Jonestown will look like a minor event when compared to what internet brainworms will do to millions of people going forward.
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I really don't think the Internet is creating or even enabling new human social behavior. It just hyper-accelerates it. Now instead of spreading person-to-person or through print, brainworms are exchanged and distributed en masse. People became convinced of a divine mandate to kill themselves before the Internet and they still would if it was gone. Now it just spreads faster.