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When Chicken Little Blogs
N/A — ... with like minded people?  Very bad.  Or empowering.  The latest technology in culture is always the end of culture itself.  Printing press?  Terrible!  Radio? Awful!  Television? Oy.  All technological progress sends us backwards.  Or something. ...

Internet Ruining Civil Society!
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... explains “How the Internet Damages Our Culture,” arguing “American society as a whole, and politics in particular, has become considerably ruder, cruder, and more paranoid than it used to be.”  Stacy McCain counters that the Internet is just going where television has already taken us. I challenge the premise. There’s no doubt that our popular discourse is cruder in some ways — the acceptable use of profanity in public spaces, for example — than it was even when I was a kid.  On the other hand, we’re less rude in crude in other ways, such as our expression toward women, ...