In 1978, futurist Peter Wagschal wrote an essay titled "Illiterates with Doctorates: The Future of Education In an Electronic Age". He described how in the future it would no longer be necessary to read in order to gain an education; there would be visual lectures which would impart information more directly and efficiently.
In short, he described YouTube.
And this is how the Troofers prevail, in spite of having everything wrong. Reading the NIST report, or even the Popular Mechanics report, requires one to be able to read and to comprehend. "Loose Change" and the like don't require reading and come pre-comprehended. The millennials, the young people, get their information directly through visual means.
And it shows.
In Among the Truthers, Jonathan Kay describes how Troofer Luke Rudkowski made a career of "ambushing" people, shouting out Troofer phrases, and then fleeing to put his ambush on YouTube. Kay asked him after one such encounter why he was so unsuccessful. Rudkowski boasted that on the contrary, he had been highly successful. And he was. He got all these hits. And it's immediately comprehensible, while reading the NIST report requires knowing math and other hard stuff.
And that's why you can't win. The Troofers have the zeitgeist. Skeptics are like old-timey, and behind the scenes, and so out of it and no doubt secretly funded by the Koch Brothers.
In short, he described YouTube.
And this is how the Troofers prevail, in spite of having everything wrong. Reading the NIST report, or even the Popular Mechanics report, requires one to be able to read and to comprehend. "Loose Change" and the like don't require reading and come pre-comprehended. The millennials, the young people, get their information directly through visual means.
And it shows.
In Among the Truthers, Jonathan Kay describes how Troofer Luke Rudkowski made a career of "ambushing" people, shouting out Troofer phrases, and then fleeing to put his ambush on YouTube. Kay asked him after one such encounter why he was so unsuccessful. Rudkowski boasted that on the contrary, he had been highly successful. And he was. He got all these hits. And it's immediately comprehensible, while reading the NIST report requires knowing math and other hard stuff.
And that's why you can't win. The Troofers have the zeitgeist. Skeptics are like old-timey, and behind the scenes, and so out of it and no doubt secretly funded by the Koch Brothers.
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