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A friend recommended Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 3-part docuseries on Netflix a few days ago. And I did. The series focused on Arnie and his life in a way that portrayed him as a hero. I got that feeling as well. I almost believed what I saw. It turns out it is an infomercial at best, as this article in The Bulwark reminds us. 

More than the article and Arnie’s series, the whole episode focused on the irony of our post-Internet age. Today, when everything is a search away, we can’t find anything or even forget to check things. I suspect the real cause of this is the increasing info-pollution. It is so easy for the past to be buried under terabytes that are our recent yesterdays.