Let Them Tweet Cake

from the the-baroness-does-not-approve dept

Butcherer79 points us to the latest voice in the Twitter-is-poisoning-our-children-or-something chorus: the eminent neurophysiologist Baroness Susan Greenfield, who has come out with a firm yeah-it-totally-is-I-bet stance. If there's a more suitable name for an arrogant Luddite than "Baroness Greenfield" I haven't heard it, and that combined with her overly condescending proclamations makes it hard to take her thoughts on Twitter seriously:

"What concerns me is the banality of so much that goes out on Twitter. Why should someone be interested in what someone else has had for breakfast? ... It reminds me of a small child (saying): 'Look at me Mummy, I'm doing this', 'Look at me Mummy I'm doing that' ... It's almost as if they're in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense it’s keeping the brain in a sort of time warp."

It seems like every time we think the "what you had for breakfast" hydra is slain, it rears another head. Anyone who still thinks such "banality" defines Twitter is clearly making their assessment based on bitter third-hand descriptions passed around the water cooler or, in this case, the House of Lords. The statement is reminiscent of one she made last year after noting that video games and "fast-paced TV shows" were also a factor:

'We know how small babies need constant reassurance that they exist,' she told the Mail yesterday. 'My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.'

That's what the Baroness really takes issue with: the way modern technology is "rewiring" our brains and altering fundamental cognitive patterns. She's not alone, of course: Techdirt recently covered another set of claims about our "rewired" brains, and the media love these stories.

While it is undoubtedly true that our brains adapt to the way we communicate (use of the word "rewire" is misleading at best), the flaw in all these arguments is the assumption that this is somehow bad or even unusual. The entire history of progress has involved changing emphases on various skills. The Baroness made this point extremely well herself, though she seemed to think she was supporting her own position:

'I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf.'

I think from this we can begin to understand her a little better. In her world, digital communication is a distraction from real life—you know, just like supermarkets. One wonders if she avoids working by electric light and shits out the window, too. And you know what? There may well be a valid psychological or perhaps even neurological argument for humans getting back in touch with their roots—but while I'm sure it's lots of fun to entertain those arguments, most of us don't have that luxury.

Of course, Baroness Greenfield is no stranger to exaggeration. She made headlines last September when, in a stunning display of ironically wrongheaded hyperbole, she compared Stephen Hawking to the Taliban for denying the existence of God (don't bother trying to figure out how that makes sense). Meanwhile, her crusade against the-kids-these-days has been going on for years—in 2006 she signed an open letter to the Telegraph on the subject penned by fellow techno-panicker Sue Palmer, and also decided to examine the issue with an all-party group in the House of Lords. It consisted of herself and "three former education secretaries, Baroness Williams, Baroness Shephard and Baroness Morris"—a roster that would sound more encouraging for a fetish party than for a group dedicated to exploring new technologies.

The Baroness is no doubt a skilled neurophysiologist, but she seems to be drawing bold and broad sociological conclusions based more on instinct than evidence. Worse still, she apparently takes it as granted that any changes are bad, as if the dynamic nature of our identity and our relationship with our environment is not the very essence of being alive. I'm getting philosophical, I know, but perhaps a little fresh philosophy is exactly what Baroness Greenfield needs—she seems to be stuck in the past.

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  • identicon
    Donnicton, 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:31am

    a roster that would sound more encouraging for a fetish party than for a group dedicated to exploring new technologies.

    Or a group of COBRA villans.

    But then again, COBRA's technology usage was pretty up there with GI Joe's.

    Okay, imagine if you will, an Amish COBRA....

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  • icon
    Gabriel Tane (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:35am

    If SHE doesn't...

    " One wonders if she avoids working by electric light and shits out the window, too." (emph. added)


    ...she might just advocate it. I wouldn't have mentioned this if I didn't know about it from my good friends at Cracked. I’m not saying she does advocate this… just that it exists and is therefore a possibility.

    Do yourself a favor and just skip to number 3. I'm not responsible for any mental damage from reading the rest of that list.

    http://www.cracked.com/article_19344_6-progressive-parenting-fads-you-wont-believe-are-legal_p2. html

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  • identicon
    theDude, 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:37am

    "eminent neurophysiologist Baroness Susan Greenfield"

    What makes her eminent, I suspect its the fact that she gets press. If that is the case I have a pretty good idea why she says this stuff.

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  • identicon
    theDude, 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:37am

    "eminent neurophysiologist Baroness Susan Greenfield"

    What makes her eminent, I suspect its the fact that she gets press. If that is the case I have a pretty good idea why she says this stuff.

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    • icon
      Richard (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:59am

      Re:

      She is one of those publicity seeking scientists whose reputation amongst their peers is generally lower as a result.

      I thought it was a waste when she was made a "people's peer" since she seemd to me to be exactly the kind of person who would have got a peerage anyway.

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  • icon
    Eric Reasons (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:44am

    3 Things...

    I have to leave the same comment here that I did over on google+ when I first saw this story.

    OK, three things:

    1) It's named "The Daily Mail". May as well be the Daily Town Crier, or the Daily Cave Painting.

    2) I'm not sure I can trust anyone named "The Baroness". I grew up with G.I.Joe.

    3) How many times do we have to see legacy media backlash against technological advances, and how it's "making us dumber". It's the same rehashed Theuth and Thamus for the past 2500 years, and the disrupted establishment has been proven wrong each and every time.

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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:45am

    Marcus, don't quit your (copyright supported) day job.

    Seriously, commending on Baronesses as something good for a fetish party, well, proves you just don't have any class at all.

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    • icon
      Dark Helmet (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:50am

      Re:

      Spoken like somebody in support of a class caste system.

      Nicely done, Mr. Point Prover....

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      • identicon
        Anonymous Coward, 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:53am

        Re: Re:

        Nope, just someone who respects a person's title, no matter how foolish it may appear. I mean, what, Marcus is now a "writer published in a well known Tech online blog thing", I have to respect him for that, right?

        You on the other hand, well... nothing like someone who can disrespectfully attribute something to me that I didn't say. Did you learn that from Mike?

        link to this | view in chronology ]

        • icon
          gigglehurtz (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:01am

          Re: Re: Re:

          Nope, just someone who respects a person's title, no matter how foolish it may appear

          Nice bit of respecting there AC.

          link to this | view in chronology ]

        • icon
          Chris Rhodes (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:15am

          Re: Re: Re:

          just someone who respects a person's title

          Why would you respect a title?

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        • icon
          PrometheeFeu (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:19am

          Re: Re: Re:

          "Nope, just someone who respects a person's title, no matter how foolish it may appear."

          The rest of us feel that if someone came up to us and said: "I am The Great Umperial Pontifex Smith", we would laugh at them because it's foolish. But if you want to bow down before the number of syllables a backwards system of government has put before their name, feel free.

          link to this | view in chronology ]

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          Dark Helmet (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:20am

          Re: Re: Re:

          "You on the other hand, well... nothing like someone who can disrespectfully attribute something to me that I didn't say. Did you learn that from Mike?"

          Yeah, there's actually regular classes that Mike teaches. Curriculum includes:

          1. How to disrespectfully attribute something to someone who didn't say it

          2. "Heh" and other monosylabic methods for expressing wry humor

          3. The benefits of extreme communist-capitalist-social-tyranny and how to push it onto an unsuspecting internet community

          4. Home Economics

          5. Recess

          6. Not quitting your day job 101

          7. Writing stories that only work for famous/unknown artists

          8. Dismissal

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    • icon
      Marcus Carab (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:59am

      Re:

      Comedy and class rarely mix. Sorry to offend your traditional sensibilities.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

      • identicon
        Anonymous Coward, 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:08am

        Re: Re:

        They clearly have a case of the vapors.

        link to this | view in chronology ]

      • icon
        The Groove Tiger (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 2:04pm

        Re: Re:

        I call it 'The Aristocrats'.

        link to this | view in chronology ]

      • identicon
        Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2011 @ 12:28am

        Re: Re:

        It's just your comedy is weak tea. Perhaps more time working at your copyright supported job would give you insight into the world. Like I said, don't quit your day job. Oh yeah, learn some respect while you are at it!

        link to this | view in chronology ]

        • icon
          Marcus Carab (profile), 6 Aug 2011 @ 7:15am

          Re: Re: Re:

          You're right, I'll never be the kind of comedic genius that uses phrases like "weak tea"

          If that's what being respectful about comedy gets you, I think I'll stay over here with the rabble, thanks.

          link to this | view in chronology ]

  • icon
    Chris Rhodes (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:46am

    Can't Decide

    One wonders if she avoids working by electric light and shits out the window, too.

    Great line, or greatest line?

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    • icon
      Ninja (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 10:00am

      Re: Can't Decide

      Considering the latest revolutions and political movements are happening on the social media, specially over twitter, she has no clue about the world and should be educated. So yes, this line is EPIC.

      Took me quite some time to get into twitter because I also thought at first that it was a stupid trend that would soon die. Then I noticed the political power of it and joined the boat. Seeing heavy weights from the tech, financial, social etc worlds waging verbal, moral, technical etc wars on twitter along with popular movements is just plain awesome. If anything, kids can get lots of knowledge that society is eager to deny them nowadays.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

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    gigglehurtz (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:57am

    I have a friend who truly believes that the rapid advancement of technology is destroying society. And the reason he believes that is because he can't keep up with it. Because he can't keep up, it must be bad. What folks like this never seem to understand or accept is that the world of the past they're comfortable is the result of things changing.

    The changing world is not the problem. Your inability to adapt to it is.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

    • icon
      PrometheeFeu (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:14am

      Re:

      Most of them people don't seem to realize how much technological change they are benefiting from in the background. Technology is not just computers, medicines and cellphones. It's also new better methods or making yogurts, more effective ball bearings, etc...

      To be fair, from one point of view, your friend is right. Technology is changing society which can be rephrased as destroying an old society and creating a new one.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

    • identicon
      Morgenstern, 5 Aug 2011 @ 9:35am

      Re: Stupid and short-sighted

      Gigglehurtz is right. The changing world is not the problem. But gigglehurtz's inability to properly understand how it is change is a problem. Technology is not some neutral entity. Every technology produces actions and reactions that may be beneficial or harmful, meaning that gigglehurtz's worshiping of technology makes him very similar to a religious fanatic who cannot think beyond the confines of a constructed reality. In this case, gigglehurtz has built his reality on the back of his belief that technology is infallible, which is stupid. Stop acting like technology is a religion, and stop being such a fanatical idiot about it.

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        Marcus Carab (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 9:54am

        Re: Re: Stupid and short-sighted

        Technology is not some neutral entity.

        Yes. Yes it absolutely is. Technology has no consciousness, no awareness, no intentions, no purposes - it is entirely neutral.

        What people do with that technology, how we incorporate it into society, can be good or bad. But the technology itself is neutral.

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          Joe Publius (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 10:15am

          Re: Re: Re: Stupid and short-sighted

          Technology has no consciousness, no awareness, no intentions, no purposes - it is entirely neutral.

          Spoken like someone who's never had their phone sabotage a text message with "auto-corrections".

          I'm pretty sure my phone is out to portray me to my wife and friends as some sort of deviant.

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            Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 1:10pm

            Re: Re: Re: Re: Stupid and short-sighted

            I'm pretty sure my phone is out to portray me to my wife and friends as some sort of deviant.

            The phone may be trying to change society's concept of "deviants" for the better.

            It may also be offering "deviants" who wish to disguise themselves from society an acceptable excuse for momentary slips.

            Auto-correct for social change!

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          • identicon
            slowpoke, 6 Aug 2011 @ 10:17am

            Re: Re: Re: Re: Stupid and short-sighted

            Spoken like someone who's never had their phone sabotage a text message with "auto-corrections".

            Except that is an application of technology. The technology behind that application is (most likely) some combination of text parsing, pattern recognition and string manipulation - which are, again, completely neutral.

            I like to make an analogy to nuclear fission in these cases. On itself, it (quoting Marcus) has no consciousness, no awareness, no intentions, no purposes. However, you can do both good and bad things with nuclear fission, ie you apply the technology to purpose. That purpose could, for example, be generating energy - you just build a nuclear reactor. It could also be destroying stuff - you just invented the nuke.

            Both the reactor and the nuke are applications of nuclear fission. Those you can judge, but not nuclear fission itself. The same goes for your auto correction. You can judge it, but you cannot judge the underlying technologies.

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        • identicon
          HothMonster, 5 Aug 2011 @ 11:22am

          Re: Re: Re: Stupid and short-sighted

          my roomba has a soul

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      • icon
        nasch (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 10:02am

        Re: Re: Stupid and short-sighted

        In this case, gigglehurtz has built his reality on the back of his belief that technology is infallible, which is stupid.

        What's stupid is you making stuff up about gigglehurtz. He never said anything like what you claim.

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          gigglehurtz (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 12:28pm

          Re: Re: Re: Stupid and short-sighted

          Thanks nasch. I actually had to go back and re-read what I said to see if I might have implied that.

          I do find it interesting that Morgenstern presents an argument that could have come directly from the friend I was speaking of. I don't think I would want to drink beer with both of them at the same time.

          And he is correct about one thing about me. I really don't understand how change is a problem. You can point out specific instances or examples of change that suck to you, to be sure, and I might agree on some of them. But in general, change is what makes the world so fascinating as far as I'm concerned.

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      • identicon
        Prisoner 201, 5 Aug 2011 @ 1:57pm

        Re: Re: Stupid and short-sighted

        "Gigglehurtz is right. The changing world is not the problem. But gigglehurtz's inability to properly understand how it is change is a problem. A stone is not some neutral entity. Every stone produces actions and reactions that may be beneficial or harmful, meaning that gigglehurtz's worshiping of stones makes him very similar to a religious fanatic who cannot think beyond the confines of a constructed reality. In this case, gigglehurtz has built his reality on the back of his belief that a stone is infallible, which is stupid. Stop acting like a stone is a religion, and stop being such a fanatical idiot about it."

        Edited to illustrate the collossal stupidity of your post. Technology is no more good or evil than a stone - an evil man will bash someones head in with it, while a good man will build a house with it.

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  • icon
    Trails (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:11am

    The good news about the old guard who fears media:

    they eventually die out. And then we can get on with our lives.

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    • identicon
      ckoning, 5 Aug 2011 @ 11:05am

      Re: The good news about the old guard who fears media:

      The concern is the amount of damage that they do to society before they do die out.

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    • identicon
      monkyyy, 13 Dec 2011 @ 9:35pm

      Re: The good news about the old guard who fears media:

      then u will be they

      link to this | view in chronology ]

  • icon
    PrometheeFeu (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:14am

    Her belief in God sounds Talibanesque to me.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

    • identicon
      Morgenstern, 5 Aug 2011 @ 9:38am

      Re: Goethe

      "He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." ~Goethe.

      Stop pretending that religion has no basis in history and culture. Your ignorance on the subject is Talibanesque.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Eponymous Coward, 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:19am

    We're overdue for a moral panic this week. Just as {the Internet contains porn != all Internet content is porn}, {there's banality on Twitter != all tweets are banal}.

    Is the Baroness having a series-of-tubes moment, or is it that you have to check your logical reasoning at the door when you become "eminent"?

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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:31am

    Different Take

    I can understand where someone could come to the conclusion that tweeting about eggs for breakfast is a way for a person to be like a small child, however, I think these 'experts' are missing the larger picture.

    First, all of this newer technology is exposing people that may not previously had a chance to interact with society a chance to feel normal.

    My middle child is MR. Back in the 80's the family would have purchased a farm in the country, kept the kid on the farm, and never let them out. No contact with society, no experiences in the real world.

    Although the online world isn't 'real world', it still offers experiences and learning opportunities to those that may never have had them before.

    Another aspect of this is with so many people being online, and all of them wanting their 15 min of fame (who doesn't want that), when people are in the Real World, they are looking at the people around them totally differently. They are more accepting of the differences in people to their face, even if they go online and express differently. One example of this is going out into the real world only to find 'someone doing something stupid to find something funny to talk about online'.

    As far as the facebook check-in and status updates, well, those are generally directed at someone specific. It could be a female that is showing exactly where they are at so the love of their life will show up there. It could be an ex that is posting what they are doing to prove they are better off without the other person. It could be someone that is stating they are eating eggs, when they would rather be eating steak, and they are hoping to provoke a response from someone in their follower base to say "hey, let's go get steak".

    A lot of these people were unheard of prior to twittertime. They were the ones in their rooms, feeling alone, abused, headphones on, scribbling in diaries...some ended it with a shotgun to their heads. Now, maybe some can express, get support, and live fuller lives.

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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:42am

    Twitter doesn't hurt anyone

    But twitter is really stupid. And I'm not exactly a luddite.. I've been online since my BBS days on my 386SX.

    I honestly do think people who post every little thing they do all day are being narcissistic... then again humans tend to be narcissistic

    Still, never found any use for twitter... It's like facebook or google plus with a character limit

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    • identicon
      Anonymous Coward, 5 Aug 2011 @ 9:01am

      Re: Twitter doesn't hurt anyone

      I have to concur, but in a different way: Twitter AND Facebook AND all of these are stupid. NOT because I can't keep up with them, thank you very much, I've got a long history of living on the bleeding edge, and NOT because they're largely expressions of banal self-importance (although that's true), but because they're walled gardens -- they repeat the mistakes of the old AOL. If you want to build communities, if you want to interact, then do it out here on the open Internet...not in an unimportant backwater like Twitter or Facebook.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

      • icon
        Marcus Carab (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 9:14am

        Re: Re: Twitter doesn't hurt anyone

        I can see what you mean about Facebook. Twitter isn't really that walled off, though...

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  • icon
    Chuck Norris' Enemy (deceased) (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:43am

    GLaDOS

    The cake is a lie!

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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 5 Aug 2011 @ 8:52am

    Tempted now to install FourSquare and tween how I'm the mayor of Baroness Susan Greenfield's front lawn.

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  • icon
    Kevin (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 10:34am

    Feature Request

    One wonders if she avoids working by electric light and shits out the window, too.


    I hereby request the feature to LOL-vote* individual sentences in articles.


    * I also hereby license the newly minted word lol-vote under the original GPL. (Do YOU really want to see commercials using this term???)

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  • icon
    Jeffrey Nonken (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 10:47am

    The good ol' days

    Used to be a time when we knew everything there was to know about the world, and many of us would hide in our homes or monasteries and let the world run itself. Anything beyond about 7 miles away was stories and legend. (I'm speaking metaphorically, of course, of the past.)

    Of course we had bad teeth and bad food and worse health and would die young of nasty incurable things like measles and infections and so on. Work all day every day without a break just to survive. No indoor plumbing. No hot showers. No heat in the outhouse.

    Fun stuff like that.

    Hmm. Come to think of it, even the outhouses were a life-changing technological advancement. As was the plow, for example. Shovels and hoes and rakes. These have all changed what we are. Maybe what she really means is that we need to give it all up. Clothes. Farming. Houses. Toothbrushes. OB/GYNs. Live as nature intended: dirty, squalid, diseased, cold and hungry.

    Good stuff, Maynard? No? Hmm. Didn't think so.

    As for the fetish reference, it's an amusing point, and yet... I can't help but feel like that's skirting a bit close to ad hominem. Just sayin'.

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  • icon
    hmm (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 1:54pm

    Lies! all Lies!

    Of COURSE Baroness Greenfield doesn't shit out the window.

    She's a very hard working lady. She has to get up early every morning, make her way to the printing offices and shit all over the presses in time for the morning edition.

    Then she shits into the mouths of anyone stupid enough to pay attention to her, followed by her lunchtime shit all over anyone that would be retarded enough to allow her anywhere NEAR their children.....

    Occasionally she allows herself a treat and shits all over democracy and common sense, but this is a philosophical shit rather than the runny mess that usually emits from her gaping, drooling mouth.

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  • icon
    alex (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 1:59pm

    wonderful article. thanks =]

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    hmm (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 2:01pm

    a month

    I give this retarded old biddy about a month before she's on Twitter, tweeting about how bad technology is.

    Or knowing her slightly backward mentality she's probably just discovered myspace.

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    Todd S. (profile), 5 Aug 2011 @ 5:02pm

    she apparently takes it as granted that any changes are bad

    As long as we're being philosophical, it would be equally erroneous to say that changes are inherently good.

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    • icon
      Butcherer79 (profile), 8 Aug 2011 @ 2:26am

      Re:

      I should think that labelling all changes either good or bad is inherantly incorrect.
      Any change, presumably, would be both good and bad in various degrees, the relative 'scores' for good or bad would be different with everyone who assesses said change, and if the good outwieghs the bad, the change is good. Still, it's only an opinion.
      I'm sure there will be examples of what people will think are only 'good' or 'bad' changes, however, I still think someone will contradict these on grounds of personal gain, either monetarily, physically or mentally, which is really how we all judge in the end...
      Cynical maybe but a summer cold will make you that way sometimes...

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      monkyyy, 13 Dec 2011 @ 9:40pm

      Re:

      no it wouldnt, change is inherently good, its just very weak spirited and easily corrupted

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  • identicon
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 5 Aug 2011 @ 6:43pm

    Mary Whitehouse For The 21st Century?

    Seems we are never free of the type.

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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 5 Aug 2011 @ 7:34pm

    Well here's your problem

    Seem clear to me she follows some really boring people on twitter.

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  • identicon
    Robert, 2 Jun 2012 @ 11:18pm

    She's right. Children are now exposed to the sickest pornography and violence imaginable thanks to the internet. Of course they'll say he's crazy. I notice your entry couldn't even be composed without curse words. Are you really so illiterate that the only way you can express yourself is through cursing.

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  • identicon
    Robert, 4 Jun 2012 @ 6:10am

    A famous scientist working in neuroscience versus a tech gossip blogger. I'll go with the scientist.

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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