Posted by: Jon Awbrey
It really is a puzzle. I've been watching it for a decade now and the trend is no longer deniable. Dubya Cubed, the soi-disant “WorldWideWebâ€, is like a small but very peculiar fishbowl, a hermeneutically sealed microcosm where you can watch the advance of civilization running in reverse.
It's a definite phenomenon — it's gone beyond obvious where it's headed — all that remains is to sift the cause.
Internal Resources
Selected Threads
Gyres In Reverse
- In Search Of …
Intelligent Life On The Internet - Content Fixation And Regressive Education
Hang Down Your Head, John Dewey, & Cry - The Web Is Making People Stupid
TWIMPS And Getting TWIMPSER - Wikipedia As Regressive Socialization (WARS)
Yet Another Prolegomenon (YAP)
• • •Phenomenology and Anti-Phenomenology- Phenomenology
The Art And Science Of Observing The Obvious - Anti-Phenomenology
The Knack Of Ignoring What's Smack Dab In Front Of Your Face
• • •Asemiotics, Cyber Knots, and Hermeneutering- Cyc-Borg Idiology : Cybernetic Opacity
Fear Of Uncertainty : Assistance Is Futile - Wikis And Self-Correcting Systems
Through A Glass Darkly - Hermenauts Unmoored In Semiotic Storms
Toward A Swiss Cheese Infrastructure (SCI) - MOBS In Sign Relations
Ruly, Unruly, & Unco Guid - The “Intelligent Design†Theory Of Wikipedia
Er, Maybe We Should Call That “Intentional Designâ€
• • •Anti-Critical Thinking and Inquiry Blocking- On the Nature and Sources of Ignorance
The Role of Group Identity Myths - Futures Of Learning Communities
Myths Of Collective Intelligence - Wiki-Induced Kognitive Insufficiency (WIKI)
Enough Symptomatics! What Is The Cause? - Fear Of Uncertainty →?→ Fear Of Learning
Inquiry Into The Basic Block To Inquiry - Dysfunctional Inquiry Programs (DIPs)
Slip Slidin' Away - Tenacity, Authority, Plausibility, Inquiry
Belief Fixation : Grades & Degradation
• • •Selected Posts• • •External ResourcesArticles, Blogs, Books, Discussions, Essays- http://mathoverflow.net/questions/28089/what-part-do-arguments-from-authority-play-in-mathematical-reasoning
• • •Sorting Shelf- Does The Wiki Medium Cause People To Be Fascists?
Or Does It Merely Give Them More Breeding Space?
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