My personal opinion is that we vote every day and these votes are more important than the vote we exercise once every four years. As consumers we shape our future options through the choices we make each day regarding the stores we go to, the transportation we take to get there and the things we buy.
With respect to books there is a lot of value in reading differing opinions and a lot of what is wrong with the Web is that links are usually only to similar opinions. It's bankrupting our ability to critically think and evaluate alternatives. In increasingly polarized debates we lose the muddy greyish middle ground where real solutions may lie outside of the extreme dogmas that we are fed as so-called debate.
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