Probably not. But individuals on TikTok are definitely denying themselves an opportunity to get smarter.

To be honest, a large percentage of people are intellectually very lazy (use emotion to decide, dont’ seek understanding but entertainment) and prone to being manipulated.

A large percentage of people hunger for a sense of belonging and community (which extreme nationalism and a tribal attitude can offer to some degree).

In the wasteland of corporate-controlled algorithmically steered social media (prime examples: TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)… people who don’t have an analytical mindset will get themselves shut in a bubble, and subsequently tricked and conned in various ways.

Brick and mortar social problems like a reduced chance of earning a good living by selling one’s labour - those pile on top of that. :(

I add the following as evidence of premeditation / conspiracy:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

“I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he [Vance] said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”

“And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”

This is a description, essentially, of a coup.

“We are in a late republican period,” Vance said later, evoking the common New Right view of America as Rome awaiting its Caesar. “If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”

“Indeed,” Murphy said. “Among some of my circle, the phrase ‘extra-constitutional’ has come up quite a bit.”

Historical note: as far as I understand, president Jackson ignored the Supreme Court in a case of Georgia taking Cherokee lands. Since the state also ignored, the court failed to enforce its ruling.

Experiments of frequency steering are scheduled until evening. There is a new frequency reserve market and participants need to test out their systems (synchronous compensators, battery banks, etc). So for a known time, frequency will be driven low (and response measured), and then frequency will be driven high, and response measured.