Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Youtube Returns to Algorithmically Demoting People" video.
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They wrote you and I off long ago. They're playing to the young, the ignorant and the indoctrinated. Keep in mind that there really wasn't much of an Internet at all, a mere 30 years ago. From a historical perspective things are changing very rapidly in very good ways, at a rate that surpasses the ability of centralized authorities to handle. It always has, actually, but it's never been more apparent than in the current era.
Next time you are appalled by what somebody types in the comments, remind yourself that the equivalent of that benighted individual from 30 or 40 years ago couldn't read or write. The dumbest of us is way smarter now than in the pretty recent past. At the same time, our "best and brightest" are slipping into mediocrity.
My rule of thumb is that the more wonderful/exalted a person is, the more deficiencies they're hiding from you. And that dumb-ass you look down your nose at has wisdom you never in your wildest dreams suspected.
Like that time I was lecturing to a bored and disinterested group of students in Finite Math, when all of a sudden, one of them had a seizure. I swear to God 3 EMTs emerged out of the class, somebody was calling 911, and the person having the seizure was taken care of like a billionaire at Johns Hopkins. The positive potential residing in all the shitheads around us is enormous. We just have to pick up a mirror and admit all the things we're shitheads about.
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