teledyn 𓂀 on Nostr: When one prairie dog spots a raptor, it shrieks an alarm to others. To my knowledge, ...

When one prairie dog spots a raptor, it shrieks an alarm to others. To my knowledge, the other prairie dogs have not ever paid any subscription fee for this service.

The danger with being anal about urgent alarms is those with a sinister agenda become the only dogs who will shout for free, thus the alarm most widely heard, and like most frail mammals, humans are highly risk averse, prone to overreact simply guessing their lives are in danger.

Is it any wonder then that the New York Times calls Joe Rogan the third most influential voice in their world? Or that QAnon exists?