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 Philosophers Stone. That mirror shows the viewer what he or she most wants to see - it shows ones deepest hearts desire - but recall Professor Dumbledores 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))
To: DCPatriot
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))
To: DCPatriot
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 :))
To: DCPatriot
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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