QUOTE(Text @ Sat 12th December 2009, 9:39am)
The web is just facilitating things for those who don't want to check facts in a library.
Obviously many people don't even stay 2 minutes on a page to read something, maybe they read the first 3 lines and then change page. TL;DR
Internet is making people lazy, not necessarily stupid. Although there are people who believe things without checking in depth. But the same goes for other media, the radio, the television.
But without doubt, reading books helps absorb more information, as opposed to the net where things circulate quickly and are more graphic.
Plausible things to say — in 2002 maybe — but it's gone far beyond that today.
I actually considered saying it this way —
QUOTE
The Web Is Letting People Become As Stupid As They Secretly Hope In Their Heart Of Hearts To Ever Become
TWILPBASATSHITHOHTEB
And that does contain an almost-truism or two —
- You can't sell a sucker what a sucker ain't buying.
- You can't con a person with rational expectations.
Those truisms apply to the single player — at the beginning of play.
But the sad fact is that you can play a mass of players in such a way that the options of each single player are gradually reduced to the lowest common dumbinator of them all.
And that is what we are seeing on Dubya³ today.
Jon (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif)