Four Years

Four years since I posted anything, and probably over ten years since I posted anything worthwhile?
Maybe I should start again, but it got tedious when the only people who bother to comment are the troll types, who inhabit most online platforms and only live to criticise others.
Also depressed that it seems nearly all my family and most of my ex-workmate friends that I'm still in touch with, seem to have been brainwashed into a sheep mentality where they all believe and follow anything they are told by the media.
Much as I used to enjoy a good face to face argument where opinions could be expressed and I could refute anything I knew to be untrue, social media has pretty much done away with this.
At this time of Coronavirus it has become obvious that a more dangerous virus has been propagating for the last dozen years affecting the ability of people to think for themselves.
All that's needed is one hack to make up a story in line with the particular media's political leanings and print it on the front page, even if it is proved to be 100% fabricated they will only be required to print a retraction on page 19 in small print. Before that happens the headline has been shared across the internet by anyone of the same political persausion, then the sheep get on board thinking they've discovered something which will impress their friends.
Anyone with a basic knowlege of fact checking will usually ignore it, but sadly there are already millions infected by the "if it's on the internet it must be true" virus and will then start quoting it in conversations and the lie spreads. Any political question and answer session will usually contain a handful of placed stooges to bring up the lie and subvert any sensible conversation.

..... Oh what's the point? the muppets are taking over the world :(