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Comment by supernumerary

I have writen about why we scape-goat Facebook here - basically we are trained to be highly sceptical of illusions (cf. Plato's allegory of the cave):

http://iain.land/posts/20170201-transitional-object.html

And this kind of scape-goating - throws the 'baby out with the bath-water' as it were. Basically we need illusions and they effect how we all live. Especially when we all agree on what illusions we want to share...

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