"'The new system of diffusion - the Internet - is more likely to transmit
irrationality than rationality," said political theorist Yaron Ezrahi, who
specializes in the interaction between media and politics.  'Because
irrationality is more emotionally loaded, it requires less knowledge, it
explains more to more people, it goes down easier." ... You download the
precise point of view that speaks to all your own biases."
(p ? I lost the bookmarked place S.)

"We need ... peaceful imaginations that seek to 'minimize alienation and
celebrate interdependence rather than self-sufficiency, inclusion rather
than exclusion,' openness, opportunity, and hope rather than limits,
suspicion, and grievance." p 443

Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat, 2005, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York

People Who experience mood swings, fear,
voices and visions: each other on the internet
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