--- On Tue, 11/17/09, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think there exists now, more than ever, bubble environments
> online for people to re-enforce their instinct and belief systems.
.d.
> The same is true for someone who wants to believe any political
> or disaster conspiracy under, and including, the moon.
I have been pondering that a lot recently. Like most (well, all) topics, I
have tended to brush this one away with a broom of optimism, but I am secretly
a bit more concerned than I normally let on (I'll deny I wrote this if pressed).
Does the self-ghettoization possible on the Internet lead to more negativity
than are balanced by the positives? Were we a better people when we had access
to little information but 78% shared the experience of watching Lucy become a
Mom? Are we somehow less today with endless information but no more than 10%
of us sharing a single TV show? Where we can surround ourselves with a
ditto-heading micro-minority that is still so large it fills our horizons?
I don't know. The answer, I believe, is further down the path and much more
complexly derived than we can visualize from here.
> My hope is that it's just the result of new groups of people
> coming online and finding more efficient means of spreading
> their messages, and not a widespread change in our collective
> ability to be skeptical of stupid ideas.
I agree strongly with this. However, the critical-massing of the new groupings
has its own perhaps troublesome effect.
-chris
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