Missed Call

One of the more significant evolutionary black marks against human consciousness is that morons are far from being a self-solving problem. Homo sapiens ipsedixit is a tribal rather than a rational animal, and being in conformity with one's group is accordingly far more important than being in touch with reality. Even when the idiots are obliging enough to self-destruct, the first instinct is usually to save them from themselves, as witness the efforts by the authority for nuclear safety in the Netherlands on behalf of a meta-paranoid fringe faction of the anti-5G lunatics. Among the idiots who believe that mobile phone masts emit dangerous radiation are idiots who take the protective measure of wearing "quantum pendants" and "negative ion" jewellery which, as one would expect, actually do emit dangerous radiation. Rather than allow nature to take its course, and incidentally make the poor souls' death-beds happier for a genuine cancer to blame on the 5G infrastructure, the Dutch nuclear authority has chosen to come between the conspiracy theorists and their carcinoma - a tragic failure of society and species.