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Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
Tuesday Morning
NYT. Friedman is just starting to get the paradox of the "global village." Rather than making us more homogeneous, it can make us into a world of isolated villages. For those that don't have an understanding of village life, let me clue you in. It isn't bucolic splendor, rather it is the opposite. Village life is full of long-standing grudges, half-truths, and gossip. A cornucopia of divisiveness. What is the antidote? Minds online. Weblogs. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
From the artcle "the Internet puts you together with a community of people from around the world who hate all the things and people you do"
Why is hate the easiest thing to export (and technology always to blame)?
8:26:40 AM 
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DaveNet: Monoculture, an Artifact of the 20th Century? [Scripting News]
I started running sports car rallies nationally in the early 70's. We toured from coast to coast. Each city we visited had a uique charater. Different stores, TV, restaurants, etc. The beauty of driving to these places (someting nobody seems to do anymore) is you could see the differences as you drove. By the time I quit in 1990, I really couldn't tell the diferernce from one city to the next. Noadays you get on a generic plane in a generic airport and are delivered to another generic airport. You same mostly the same monoculture everywhere you go in the US. The only differences remaining in our culture are weather and geology. Maybe this is one of the big reasons people in other cultures (including those within the US) don't like us. They want to retain their culture because it's all they have.
8:07:21 AM
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