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What does deer hunting have to do with the persistence of internet idiocy?
I’m not a deer hunter.
I have no qualms about the practice and have helped others dress and cook deer; like woodworking or stamp collecting it was simply never an activity I took up (as for golf, oh good Lord, I wish I hadn’t).
But, unlike golf, deer hunting is pretty necessary now that the populations of historical predator species – cougars (or mountain lions or pumas, depending upon where you live) and wolves and such are in many areas too small to maintain local herds at healthy levels. Wolves eating a deer This dearth of predators leads to problematic herds. Until relatively recently, this was not as big an issue as human hunters stepped into the role of predator. But as hunting declined, problems increased as without a limiting predatory force, deer populations became both much larger and much less healthy, especially in isolated groups where in-breeding – deer with question mark shaped antlers and giant white spaces on flanks (really bad if you are trying to blend into the woods) and increased susceptibility to viruses became so common that government-organized herd cullings had/have to occur.
We now have the same problem with ideas and the internet — that without a natural limiting force even the weakest and most non-sensical notions can thrive
Obviously, the past has seen its share of equivalent information expansion events and trends, but the speed at which “facts” and thoughts and ideas move on the internet destroys the usual “predators” of bad ideas – nuance, history, research, reason, time to reflect, reliable sourcing, and proper context were the cougars, wolves and deer hunters of rank stupidity.
Just as the natural obstacles to strong – rather than willy-nilly — growth are removed, the internet removes — in […]
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