QUOTE(Text @ Sat 12th December 2009, 5:11pm)
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The question we have to keep asking is why - what is there about the current SocTech Architecture of the Web that is making it such a race to the bottom of human potential on almost every front?
The "why" people do things at the bottom of human potential with the web architecture … maybe boredom, narcissism, lust for power, something that hits their psyche and that makes them feel well?
The thrust of my assertion is not merely that Dubya³ allows isolated individuals to becomes as vapid as they wish to be — I am saying that there is an amplified entropism, a grubitational distraction, a selective devolutionary pressure that is dragging the whole mass of participants down into the depths, even those who are governed by other wishes, even those who resist as best they can.
That is the systematic part of the dynamics that demands to be explained.
Jon (IMG:
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