Friday, August 31, 2012
Is the Internet Making Us Crazy?
It seems that people are no longer united through shared world views and beliefs as a result of the dawning of the Information Age as well as the 24/7 media coverage of world events. The sheer quantity of information spun to advance certain agendas has caused people to see the world through distinctly different lenses. Because the Internet is so large, it is more likely than not that a person with a certain theory can find entire websites that support it, making it no longer a speculative idea but, in that person's eyes, fact. This leads to the questions: Is the Internet warping our perspective on the world? Have we become Don Quixote's tilting at windmills instead of seeing things as they really are? I believe that the answer is "Yes."
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