- it is NOT the loss of creativity due to reproduction tehchnology, but rather TOO MUCH creativity in the production of ideas spurred by the word processing technology; note that the term "word-processing" replaced in the modern lingo terms such as "writing" or "text editing"; the product of a typewriter was still writing, but what is a product of a "word processor" - word-salad? fast food for thought that looks much better on pictures than when it is actually ingested? that, btw, also holds for computerised number-processors (such as Excel, SPSS, or SAS) that turned social sciences into numerology -- it ain't true unless it is backed up by tables, charts and graphs meticuluosly manufactured by an army of data analysts armed with computerised number crunching tools;
- it is also navel gazing, social construction of platonic reality, scripture exegesis, speaking in-tounges, the self-referentialism of truly talmudic proportions, focus of who is talking rather on what is being argued in emprical terms, the endless quotations of intellectual authorities;
- all that signifying a loss of touch with emprical reality.
And the most amazing thing of all - it is practised, inter alia, by the people who consider the man who said "philosophers only attempted to explain the world diffrently, the point is however to change it" their hero.
Intellectuals stink! To reduce mental pollution they generate, lobotomy should be considered for the particularly prolific producers of intellectual logorrhea.
wojtek