Man goes looking for stupidity in modern culture. Finds it. Film at eleven. Seriously: If you think Deepak Chopra tweets like a vapid self-promoting version of

Man goes looking for stupidity in modern culture. Finds it. Film at eleven. Seriously: If you think Deepak Chopra tweets like a vapid self-promoting version of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations [1], why are you following him? Oh, right! Your article is due in two days and you need something to hate! Someone should put together an anthology which tracks the history of technology entirely through cranky-old-man articles. It could start with Plato (in the words of his character/mentor, Socrates) complaining about this new technology called "writing" and go forward from there: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent/webliteracies/platowri.htm http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent/webliteracies/platowri.htm Not that all cranky-old-man articles are bad. Plato knew how to write. And The Unix-Haters Handbook was lots of fun, though now terribly dated, as most cranky-old-man articles are. --- [1] Speaking of obsolete technologies. Does anyone even now remember what Bartlett's Familiar Quotations was? (Be careful when Googling it; the top result spews popup ads.)