[fonc] The world's biggest exporter of crazy talk? Meme engineering?

2013-04-03 Thread Ryan Mitchley

http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler

I have to admit that I had not previously encountered such focused 
criticism of O'Reilly.


With passing mentions of Engelbart and Postman, the essay may be of some 
interest to the list.




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Re: [fonc] The world's biggest exporter of crazy talk? Meme engineering?

2013-04-03 Thread John Carlson
What's a plant and what is an animal?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica

Fwiw,

John
On Apr 3, 2013 3:41 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:

 For me, classification, taxonomy, categorization, schema and ontology are
 contentious ideas.

 Fwiw,

 Johb
 On Apr 3, 2013 2:56 PM, Gath-Gealaich gath.na.geala...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Our language, much like everything these days, has been *hacked*.
 *Fuzzy, contentious, and complex ideas* have been stripped of their
 subversive connotations and replaced by cleaner, shinier, and emptier
 alternatives

 Emphasis mine. Am I the only one feeling that these two sentences are
 deliciously ironic when put next to each other?

 - Gath


 On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Ryan Mitchley ryan.mitch...@gmail.comwrote:

 http://thebaffler.com/past/**the_meme_hustlerhttp://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler

 I have to admit that I had not previously encountered such focused
 criticism of O'Reilly.

 With passing mentions of Engelbart and Postman, the essay may be of some
 interest to the list.



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