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To: BlabItGrabIt

While the internet has a capability of enlarging, the truth is most people surfing the blogs and sites find the ones they like and linger there, in the echo chambers of a few favorite spots, and thus they shrink their worlds. They begin to believe the illusion that because 80 or 800 or 8,000 people frequent the same site and jaw the same sentiments, that there are a whole lot more people agreeing than disagreeing with them. That, in fact, a breathtaking number of people - MOST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, even - believe what they believe.

In fact, the forums are a little like the Mirror of Erised in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. That mirror shows the viewer what he or she most wants to see - it shows one’s deepest heart’s desire - but recall Professor Dumbledore’s warning: “this mirror gives us neither knowledge or truth“. He warns that men have gone mad before it, mad in their obsessive fascination with the seductive illusion that “the perfect” (which can never be) is somehow attainable.

You just gotta LOVER this woman's mind!

3 posted on 09/26/2007 8:03:12 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))

4 posted on 09/26/2007 8:03:53 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))

the truth is most people surfing the blogs and sites find the ones they like and linger there, in the echo chambers of a few favorite spots, and thus they shrink their worlds. They begin to believe the illusion that because 80 or 800 or 8,000 people frequent the same site and jaw the same sentiments, that there are a whole lot more people agreeing than disagreeing with them

With YouFoo--make that YouTube, Facebook, clo--blogs, podcasts, the socialists have a gold mine of minds to artistically mold and form via peer pressure illusions.

6 posted on 09/26/2007 8:09:26 AM PDT by BlabItGrabIt (He Became Poor, So WE Might Be Rich :))

You just gotta LOVE this woman's mind!

Yes, that was a very, very good article. There are a number of good and important concepts that she describes well.

24 posted on 09/26/2007 12:48:52 PM PDT by TChris (Governments don't RAISE money; they TAKE it.)

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