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Will the Internet Eat the World?

The American Mind

CHAPTER

The Gaze of Fire Island

i think the kind of hyper drive militant activism that people are engaging in on line an an effort to matter. Even before digital tec there was a sense that this was an ongoing revolution which existed not to actually achieve winds for the groups it ostensibly represented, but rather to assimilate those groups and feed parasitically off of whatever cultural cloutand interest they had. And then bleed them dry and leave them behind as yesterday's news when they had moved on to the next great cause. This vast sea of digital information has a way of draining the character and the fun and the verve out of absolutely everything. Whether you like it or hate it, these things have obviously a popular appeal that comes

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