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Echo Chambers and the Silo Effect
For hours, every day, the man scoured forums. Fora? Forae? He scoured, anyway. He thought he was hunting down answers, but only more questions seemed to satisfy. Answers you had to live with. Questions were great for blame. Even better, they moved the work off of him.
He posted. He down-voted. Too angry to check the facts, he started pointing to memes as though they were evidence.
An online quiz. A break in the clicks and tepid drip of thinned-out, barbarous fury. As though the dark web were an IV line of code. The quiz asked what colour his eyes were.
He couldn't remember.
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Matthew this was a really captivating story! My favourite line was “Answers you had to live with. Questions you could blame someone for.” Because it really resonated with me on a deeper level. It speaks so much truth in the essence of innocence and the naivety of knowing too much. Sometimes the curiosities and questions of ongoings will leave your mind but the answers never do. Overall this was such deep and thought provoking story! 💜
This is so well written. Not a drop of surface level concepts here, and I want to keep reading it over and over. Perfect use of a small idea to illustrate the damage of the main character’s actions at the end there. “It asked what colour his eyes were. He couldn’t remember.” Damnnnn.