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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
What is this world in which anyone with an arsenal of one hundred words may declare oneself an author by signing on for a blog, sprucing it up with graphics and pontificating about what they had for breakfast and what they think of Britney Spears?
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How ironic. You are arguing about the downfall of learned society and culture and blaming it on "demonic" technology on an Internet forum.
Well, to answer your question, it is a world of wonder and delight. That anyone with an idea or an opinion is able to "publish" with no more than a small bit on knowledge and access to a PC connected to the Internet.
Oh, and are you saying if we step back 25 years that there was no pontification and mindless drivel in print on actual, real paper?
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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
No, there are no visible brown shirts posted outside the bookstores that have shut down all across the U.S. But our national illiteracy rate is now at 25% and climbing.
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Hmm... you seem to be on the Internet, perhaps you should learn to make use of it. Several sources seem to show that the literacy rate in the US is 99%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._literacy_rate
Countries with 25% illiteracy have names like Belize, Kenya and Cambodia.
Don't you hate it when people just "pontificate" made up statistics on the Internet... me too!
'nuff said.
BOb