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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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That's an interesting article. One question it prompts for me is, when people like that talk about "burning it all down," what do they mean? I think very few of them mean that literally, so what *do* they mean? I suspect it's the violence of rhetoric rather than the rhetoric of violence -- they thrill from saying such things. Also, I think the article talks a lot about social media, which really just means that anyone can publish stuff now that other people can see, instead of needing an expensive printing press or broadcasting license -- i.e., the supply side -- but it misses the demand side -- that the technology powering Facebook and Google and others lets you choose how you're informed, and a lot of people would rather get information that makes them happy than information that is accurate or new to them.
