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In truth… good communication requires craft rather than volume or repetition. Good investigation requires time and subjectivity, both of which the Internet can steal.
I think this is part of the major harm of the Internet. It’s not web-addiction or cyber-bullying or MySpace stalkers or any of the other old, sensationalized problems-that-hurt-your-children translated into a new age. Rather, the harm is the difficulty we have sorting out what is productive and what is distraction.
”Old Media is choking on New Media (via everythingontheinternetistrue)
I’m not distracted, rather disaffected, none of it means as much as it used to. To disengage from the mainstream and pull into a fetid eddy, would be to do ourselves a dis-service. After all, we are social animals.
To seek together, to compete, to question, these are all things enabled by the Internet. Procrastination existed well before the network.