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April 16, 2010
The rule of the internet
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last ten years– aside from the fact that a man who can write a self-refuting line like “Only a Sith believes in absolutes” and be paid a billion dollars – it’s this: web communities create in-breeding. It’s less the planet-holding-hands-and-singing-the-Coke-song than Cities in Flight, domed off, heading on different trajectories. If you doubt this, subscribe to a few Twitter feeds from people who believe different things than you do, and you will find dross passed off as insight, biscuit-crumbs strewn as if they were pearls on silk, all because the writer believes he or she is speaking to an audience that need not be persuaded. The worst part of the internet is its ability to let the pre-persuaded accrete, and declare the sun moves around them. -- Zep, Tot, Tweet, Tumbl
Posted by Vanderleun at April 16, 2010 5:46 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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"Only a Sith believes in absolutes"
Yeah, but didn't Yoda say "Do or do not; there is no 'try'..."
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at April 18, 2010 9:21 AM