New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik writes:
When there's easy agreement, it's fine, & when there's widespread disagreement on values or facts, as with say, the origins of capitalism, it's fine too; you get both sides.
The trouble comes when one side is right & the other side is wrong & doesn't know it.
The Shakespeare authorship [Wikipedia] page & the Shroud of Turin page are scenes of constant conflict & are packed with unreliable information. Creationists crowd cyberspace every bit as effectively as evolutionists, & extend their minds just as fully.
Our trouble is not the overall absence of smartness but the intractable power of pure stupidity.
Modern social networks are fraught with dull old dysfunction & wonderfully new opportunities.
The Life Logging Monkey is in the middle of THE STREAK OF ALL STREAKS. By setting MORE Personal Records, Bests, Streaks -- THAN THE DAY BEFORE -- Monkey has gained purchase on DISCIPLINE & INTENSITY, bypassing decades of Torpor. Follow along. Join in. Break a bad record right now Monkeyfart.
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