The internet has fractionated out our cultural references and commonly used language. This has caused the communication of belief to separate out from lanaguage

The internet has fractionated out our cultural references and commonly used language. This has caused the communication of belief to separate out from lanaguage. The Facebook Spying idea is the common place to agree and complain about phone spying in general. It is the poster boy for communicating an implicit belief about a larger topic. We have begun to use language to communicate implicit and shared beliefs without any evidence, facts, agreement or qualification. We come to our own beliefs privately and then choose a poster boy to carry the conversation. There's not much surprising about the continuation of conspiracy theories, or topics that look like conspiracy theories. We shredded the common cultural references apart...