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I largely agree. Plato leveled somewhat similar criticisms at the early use of the written word millenia ago. I think what's fundamentally different with intern
by anigbrowl 11mo ago
I largely agree. Plato leveled somewhat similar criticisms at the early use of the written word millenia ago. I think what's fundamentally different with internet communication is the timed nature of the medium, conveying a sense of pseudo-urgency that necessitates disagreements be input in a timely fashion, and that failure to do so will imply correctness or at least tacit agreement.
Incidentally, I find your comment significantly more substantive and thoughtful than Weinstein's.
- keepamovin 11mo agoThank you! Yes, the async nature you highlight is another huge thing I omitted. I would love to read more of your thinking on that. It's so unnatural to conversation, and yet we're "domesticated" to that via letters, but Internet async, and its public "forever-ness" is a new beast. Please write more about that if you like.