[lbo-talk] On ad hominem

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Mon May 23 10:13:03 PDT 2005


--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A very powerful feedback loop system -- **feedback
>loop** because it
>seems to me
>that people often believe things that flatter or
>comfort them in some
>way; we
>participate in the process of being propagandized (if
>there is such a
>word)

Yes, and I get the feeling that paradoxically the Internet has re-enforced this tendancy. On the one hand, we dont have to read or listen to just ABC, CBS or NBC (that's good); on the other hand, we can just go read the "Daily Me" in the blog of our choice. You got a crazy idea? Just type it in Google and you will find an online support group to justify it. In a way, that's democracy, but some days it just feels like the whole world is becoming Orange County.

-Thomas

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