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First off: we haven't replaced the "content industry" by "the community" at all: we have replaced the former content industry by some criminals able to program chat-bots. The internet information highway left truth as roadkill, so to say. To think that these criminals aren't an "industry" in themselves is an illusion. Or do you think the likes of Steve Bannon would be able to spew their hatred without a lot of money behind them?

Second: in general we lack to resources to prove what we are told. If someone tells me that somewhere in Africa X is the case i am in no position to find out if he is telling me the truth or not, because i am far from Africa and have no oportunity to find out for myself.

This is the reason why most of us in most cases have to ultimately believe what we are told. Research no shows that whatever is told is believed more easily the more simplistic it is. Example: the crisis of 1929 and the subsequent depression which is said to have been instrumental in the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Of course their "explanation" of what happened was utter nonsense - "the jews are to blame" - but this "explanation" was 5 words long, whereas any serious explanation of why and how cyclic crises plagued modern capitalism takes a lot more time and effort to explain.

We face basically the same situation now when we try to explain refugees, immigrants, the current crisis, etc.. The "explanations" are believed the more easily the more simplistic they are, regardless of their truth.

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explain_ftell_or_die

explain_ftell_or_die(3) 				     Library Functions Manual					   explain_ftell_or_die(3)

NAME

       explain_ftell_or_die - get stream position and report errors

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libexplain/ftell.h>
       long explain_ftell_or_die(FILE *fp);
       long explain_ftell_on_error(FILE *fp);

DESCRIPTION

       The  explain_ftell_or_die  function is used to call the ftell(3) system call. On failure an explanation will be printed to stderr, obtained
       from the explain_ftell(3) function, and then the process terminates by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE).

       The explain_ftell_on_error function is used to call the ftell(3) system call. On failure an explanation will be printed to stderr, obtained
       from the explain_ftell(3) function, but still returns to the caller.

       fp      The fp, exactly as to be passed to the ftell(3) system call.

RETURN VALUE

       The  explain_ftell_or_die function only returns on success, see ftell(3) for more information. On failure, prints an explanation and exits,
       it does not return.

       The explain_ftell_on_error function always returns the value return by the wrapped ftell(3) system call.

EXAMPLE

       The explain_ftell_or_die function is intended to be used in a fashion similar to the following example:
	      long result = explain_ftell_or_die(fp);

SEE ALSO

       ftell(3)
	       get stream position

       explain_ftell(3)
	       explain ftell(3) errors

       exit(2) terminate the calling process

COPYRIGHT

       libexplain version 0.52
       Copyright (C) 2010 Peter Miller

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