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Technology: Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding
Red Leader. writes "This Thomas Friedman op-ed entitled "Global Village Idiocy" and this article by George Packer, entitled "When Here Sees There," both touch on some interesting observations regarding technology's impact on tolerance and understanding. My favourite quote from Friedman's piece is "the Internet, at its ugliest, is just an open sewer: an electronic conduit for untreated, unfiltered information."" We've previously posted the Packer piece, but combined with other story, I think it's worth a retread.
other people. I can see that Bill O'Rielly might upset some people.
But they should understand that some others really do feel like that.
If this journalist thinks the USA is represented by the NYT, then
she's seriously misleading herself.
The world may not be as nice
a place as political correctness would have you believe. But then,
it is not. Get over it, and work at overcoming differences if thats
your thing. Nothing
worse than not addressing something that could be addressed because
you think it doesn't need to be. Wasted opportunity.
If nothing
else, information helps you know your opponent. This is always a
good thing. So is a critical mind, unnumbed by state-controlled
or editorially sanitized press.
You are woefully ignorant, and I suggest you read a little history. Christians have shed more blood in God's name than ANY other religeon, ever.
There was no ENRON deal, unless you talk about Clinton and his cronies taking money and getting them some loan deals (that they have defaulted on now). Clinton's sexual history was news because he lied under oath. But that only showed how democrats are corupt to the core (look at the results of the impeachment trial). The war on terrorism is a US war, not Bush's. With 10 years in the Navy, I was just as much at risk as the current people. Maybe you can look at the book Bias. It is a good review of the state of current american journalism.
Have you really heard a good counter point on the networks for drilling in ANWR, against 1.5 million abortions a year, telling the truth about AIDS on the decline since 1992 (and the fact that it gets more funding that heart and cancer research)?
What a country we could be if people would use the brain for thinking instead of the Knee jerk emotional reaction that the left loves.
What OS do you want to abuse today?
Actually, no. The first "disrespecting"
was done by the Palestinians, who in the
1870's through 1920's had a habit of going
to the Al Aqsa mosque yard, looking at
the Jews who were down below at the Western
Wall, and pelting them with garbage. However,
that is largely irrelevant. The Mideast mess
wasn't caused by "disrespect." It was caused
by the massacres incited by Haj Amin Al Husseini
in 1929.