Tacking onto the last post about some hysterics over the blogosphere: Can we please stop with this sort bizarre sensationalism? Seriously, when was the public square ever not run by “bullies, sophists, and clowns”? The idea that things around us are suddenly descending into barbarism is just silly. Its been utterly barbaric for time immemorial.
I honestly wonder if people who make this sort of jilted noise really read stuff that has been part of “the public square” over the last couple hundred years or so. I have trouble finding anything today that is significantly more stupid, barbaric, or insane than what passed for public discourse throughout the last few centuries. Humanity has always been stupid, barbaric, and insane and the notion that once upon a time before blogs and interwebs there was a time of glorious civic virtue and rational public debate is just fantasy. All McDaniel’s post provides is hand-wringing nostalgia for something that never existed.
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