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[Fiona Shnapple]

The Internet induces Sloth, not democracy of information and decision
making. Hey, let the big boys take care of everything. Fiscal Cliffs!
QE! The Debt! The Markets. So complicated. so arcane. Who can even
understand anything anymore let alone make a decision.  The experts.
The specialists. The thousands of expert and specialist cultures, not
two but thousands.

Good thing people fuck with it, turn it on and off, mess with it's
delivery systems, create underground delivery systems, financial
systems...so on....this is what BE shows. And P does it, sets the
example, messing with it. Making fun of it. Laughing at what Gleick
calls the Flood.



On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The internet was the communication tool that could have induced a democratization of information and decision making but as BE shows, that dream is dead.  Only the earth itself seems to have a revolutionary option to overthrow the madness.
>
> Oh come on,  Joseph. You never really  believed that the Internet
> could save us from our madness. Did you?
>
> Did you or anyone else ever seriously believe that the Internet could
> induce democratization of information and decision making?
>
> Oh,  come on. I though you smarter than that.
>
>  Did you ever believe this? I hope not.
>
> BE doesn't show us that this was ever a possibility. It's the foolish
> dream of geeks who hoped, of course, to be the liberators and
> democratizers, as long as they got, well, to be cool, and like, a
> little rich.
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