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[David Morris]

Pontificating again.

On Thursday, November 21, 2013, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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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