Today I was talking with my kid, and I made some exasperated points about social media — people saying anything on the Internet — preposterous, conspiracy theory kinds of sh*t. We were talking, he and I. I said, “Are there more stupid people today than ever before, or what?”

He pointed out that there aren’t more stupid people these days than there were before. It’s just that now, the Gullible People are uniting with the stupid people.

Separating out the sets seemed to make sense to me.