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Reminds me that Kierkegaard seems to have written about social media: "Man, this shrewd being, ponders day and night how he can invent new means to amplify the

by Ptyx 8y ago

Reminds me that Kierkegaard seems to have written about social media: "Man, this shrewd being, ponders day and night how he can invent new means to amplify the noise and how he can spread the sound and the empty talk as hastily as possible everywhere. What one achieves in such a way is probably soon the opposite: the message is soon brought to its lowest level of fullness of meaning, and at the same time, conversely, the means of communication in the direction of hasty and all-flooding distribution have probably reached their maximum, for what is more hastily circulated than gossip?"

chosenbreed 8y ago
> Reminds me that Kierkegaard seems to have written about social media: Interesting. Where did you get the quote from? I might add it my reading list :-)
jonnydubowsky 8y ago
I love Kierkagard even more after reading this. I can't find the quote after a few targeted searches, where is it from? Thanks for sharing
- Ptyx 8y ago
  It's a quote I read in German translated here via DeepL with slight changes. Seems like it is part of this work from 1851: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Self-Examination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Self-Examination From this chapter: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/zur-selbstprufung-der-gegenwart-empfohlen-5894/5 http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/zur-selbstprufung-der-gegen... Couldn't immediately find an English version of the text.
hugh4life 8y ago
I'm guessing this was about newspapers/journalists which probably isn't the message people around here would like. "The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word 'journalist'. If I were a father and had a daughter who was seduced I should despair over her; I would hope for her salvation. But if I had a son who became a journalist and continued to be one for five years, I would give him up." - Soren Kierkegaard
- malvosenior 8y ago
  Given the extreme anti-tech sentiment and inaccurate reporting pervasive in among journalists. I think many here would totally agree with this statement.
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jmngomes 8y ago
Do you mean Soren Kierkegaard, the philosopher who lived in the 1800s?

by Ptyx 8y ago

chosenbreed 8y ago

> Reminds me that Kierkegaard seems to have written about social media: Interesting. Where did you get the quote from? I might add it my reading list :-)

jonnydubowsky 8y ago

I love Kierkagard even more after reading this. I can't find the quote after a few targeted searches, where is it from? Thanks for sharing

Ptyx 8y ago
It's a quote I read in German translated here via DeepL with slight changes. Seems like it is part of this work from 1851: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Self-Examination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Self-Examination From this chapter: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/zur-selbstprufung-der-gegenwart-empfohlen-5894/5 http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/zur-selbstprufung-der-gegen... Couldn't immediately find an English version of the text.

hugh4life 8y ago

I'm guessing this was about newspapers/journalists which probably isn't the message people around here would like. "The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word 'journalist'. If I were a father and had a daughter who was seduced I should despair over her; I would hope for her salvation. But if I had a son who became a journalist and continued to be one for five years, I would give him up." - Soren Kierkegaard

malvosenior 8y ago
Given the extreme anti-tech sentiment and inaccurate reporting pervasive in among journalists. I think many here would totally agree with this statement.
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jmngomes 8y ago

Do you mean Soren Kierkegaard, the philosopher who lived in the 1800s?