From the article -- "... Something else we’ve learned is that credibility gap on social media between someone with tens of thousands of followers and someone with 7 followers sitting at his/her kitchen table is paper thin. Nothing is more deadly to research than the illusion of popularity. ..."

Wise words. I know of at least one individual here who scorns anons who haven't collected an "acceptable" number of upvotes, snidely and repeatedly remarks how those "inferior" anons "aren't pulling their weight" and other such petty slander. So I like this article writer's intelligent and mature mindset of focusing on what's important. Like God first, family, country.

While this sounds like an introduction to a vast topic, it's intimidating thinking of how far so many have strayed from God and from what's important in life. Various people over the years have tried to highlight this issue in various ways and with varying amounts of intensity. How can we (the larger picture of we as the masses) get back to God? How can we make some people understand the illusory nature of the brief "high" their ego gets from feeling others are "beneath" them? Worthiness in the eyes of God is having faith. Perhaps if these people got to know God and realized how valuable they are to Him they would have so much of what they feel is missing from their lives. I could go on (and on and on and...), but just my two cents.