The Taiping Rebellion in Qing China between 1850 and 1864. It was started by a man called Hong Xiuquan who failed his mandarin examinations, fell into a psychosis of some kind, and came to believe he was the brother of Jesus. The cult he started was wildly successful and turned an entire province into a cultist theocracy before being quashed by the Qing.

It took hundreds of years of proselytizing by some very highly educated people for Jesus David rocks Easter to have an affect on the world.

Today, people who barely can string coherent thoughts together can have an instant platform to spread idiocy.

I guess what I’m saying is the risk is much greater now for idiocy to take over than before.

The main change new technologies bring is that we can now see that a great many people disagree with us.