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Re: Monday, April 16, 2007
Jeeze, Doc... For once I'm not happy with being credited for something. I sent you the steer to the pravda piece on Imus - with a smiley face - and referencing the national enquirer - as meta-example of the Big Lie - as a possible example of a weapon of mass distraction being deployed on an easy target. No matter what the truth is, some percentage of people are pre-disposed to believe Pravda in this matter, even if the article is surrounded by links to strange, national enquire'ish things. It's my hope that anyone with half a memory can still remember when Pravda was the USSR's official propaganda arm, but that's just a hope. It's admittedly quite odd some of the groups who defend Imus's remarks. I note that every time there is a giant brouhaha in the mass media over something like this I worry mostly about what we are being distracted from, and I go looking for counter-memes - subcurrents in the war - scary bills in congress - or ongoing investigations of other popular figures that were big in the news until this week - think of all the reporters coming off the Anna-Nicole beat that might actually have found something more interesting to dig into than Inmus.... Now, remembering to do this, to question everything, is kind of the antithesis of today's googled world, when it's easy to find exactly what you are looking for, all the time, even if it isn't true. I'd love to have a search engine that also showed me what I wasn't looking for, when I least expected it, by selectively using antonyms in key phrases or via other means. That sort of search result would keep our minds nimble and (more often) outraged - and best of all - keep people of wildly disparate views talking to, rather than killing, each other. I guess I'm off to click on wikipedia's random button again..... There are responses to this message:
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