Re: To SRC regulars....

Straydog wrote:

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And, earlier today I spent some time looking at some "soc.culture.*" newsgroups. Amazing how much spam propaganda is there. Everything from the pro-India (I wonder how much these guys are geting paid), to penny stock pitches, to all kinds of blather. Newsgroups, a lot of them, have sure gone downhill. I remember not too many years ago that you didn't see much of this blatant commercial propaganda and hype, but you could find young brats making posts where one guy calls another guy a name,

Many of those brats are likely not so young any more. I'd wager that some of them might have grey hair. ;-)

and the next post, the other guy calls the first guy a name....(Godwins Law, you know), whereas a few years before that (say early '90s), there
were fairly long, detailed, introspective, reflective, meaningful posts on a lot of these NGs. Its a shame. Sometimes it makes me think of that biblical story of the Tower of Babble (shudders, it gives me). Extending on your question the other day, the problem with the internet's influence on our society is that we interact with machines more (we keyboard potatoes) and less with our (human) brethern. I fear this is not good.

Old Pif


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