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  • Cynicism, Gullibility and the Internet Era
    The Cynical, Gullible American Man - The Atlantic: We have a data economy that thrives on selling products we don’t need for problems we don’t have, and a public that falls for these ploys—even as we think ourselves much too clever to be fooled. This article, linked to by Kottke creates a new word, that might take off much as ‘enshittification’ did. This one is gullicism, noting that people seem now to be gullible about snake-oil salesman, and cynical about experts
     
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Cynicism, Gullibility and the Internet Era

✇A weblog by Andrew Canion
17 March 2026 at 06:07

The Cynical, Gullible American Man - The Atlantic:

We have a data economy that thrives on selling products we don’t need for problems we don’t have, and a public that falls for these ploys—even as we think ourselves much too clever to be fooled.

This article, linked to by Kottke creates a new word, that might take off much as ‘enshittification’ did. This one is gullicism, noting that people seem now to be gullible about snake-oil salesman, and cynical about experts.

Yesterday I watched Louis Theroux’s Manosphere documentary and today I read this article at The Atlantic. I’m losing hope for the world.

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