A contemporary proliferation of fools is not half as terrible as their common access to digital communications platforms through which they might channel, diffuse and disseminate their compound and stagnant simpleton’s craft of remedial unknowing. In waving these great banners of stupidity, they seek to bludgeon rationality, intelligence and civilisation itself into humble (and submissive) retrograde descent into ignorance and authoritarian horror.
That this catastrophe is currently occurring is without doubt. The question of it’s necessity (or inevitability) remains open.