Is The World Becoming More Stupid Or More Corrupt?

Is the world becoming more stupid or more corrupt?
Both.

We are stupid for ignoring the corruption general by those who curtail free speech. It’s all to do with justifying the claim that words can hurt feelings, and this will lead to genocide.

Genocide: violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group, and aims at the destruction of a people.

Of course, there are those whose aim is to create fear in people, but isn’t that done by those who are already corrupted by being led to believe that hurt feelings lead to violence? If a society is unbalanced, there will be a reaction. We humans are unstable creatures.

Disinformation is an attack on the mind.

“Disinformation is false information deliberately spread to deceive people. Disinformation is an orchestrated adversarial activity in which actors employ strategic deceptions and media manipulation tactics to advance political, military, or commercial goals.

“Disinformation is implemented through attacks that weaponise multiple rhetorical strategies and forms of knowing—including not only falsehoods but also truths, half-truths, and value judgements – to exploit and amplify culture wars and other identity-driven controversies.

“Misinformation can be used to create disinformation when known misinformation is purposefully and intentionally disseminated.”

– from Wikipedia

This is why we need to break out of the vicious cycle of existence, by pulling our heads out of the sand and not re-enacting the same state of affairs by refusing to think about unpleasant facts, although they have an influence on our life.

Life is precious.
Knowing truth is precious.
Being natural is precious.
Being kind is precious.
Acknowledging stupid corruption is precious.

These are all precious because they are part of realising the path to enlightenment.

If we continue to believe everything that we hear and read, we’re stupid. If the Buddha said, “Do not take my words for the truth: know it for yourself”, then don’t believe anyone.