<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:929.163px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:qf" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt gmail-adO" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:q2" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL gmail-msg-8762200627933086022" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-8762200627933086022WordSection1"><font color="#888888"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <u></u></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I have changed the way I use the internet in just the past year. We understand how good news agencies have become at tuning their message to their audience. Everything became politics, celebrities and news of the weird. But that isn’t really what our world is about. Those things are an aspect of it perhaps, but not really what is happening. If we over-focus on politics, celebrities and news of the weird, we get a distorted view of the world.<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">spike<u> OK - good - so what are the alternatives for the average person? bill w</u></span></pre></font></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi" style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:32 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-8762200627933086022WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>>…I guess my point was more in line with scapegoating the internet as an obvious solution once it's identified as THE cause of our current woes.<u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><br>>…Maybe I was too clickbait-y, and sidetracked myself. What I was supposed to be suggesting was: What if it's our <i>use</i> of the internet (not the internet itself) that's the biggest problem? Analogy with fire. Or knives. Or just about any technology, really.<br><br>…<u></u><u></u></p><pre>-- <u></u><u></u></pre><pre>>…Ben Zaiboc<u></u><u></u></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I have changed the way I use the internet in just the past year. We understand how good news agencies have become at tuning their message to their audience. Everything became politics, celebrities and news of the weird. But that isn’t really what our world is about. Those things are an aspect of it perhaps, but not really what is happening. If we over-focus on politics, celebrities and news of the weird, we get a distorted view of the world.<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></pre></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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