I notice more and more the casualties of the side of contemporary life Bill McKibben describes in The Age of Missing Information. The world around us isn't just coming to us in smaller and smaller fragments. It's that even when an accurate portrayal of the matter at hand is readily available, it just isn't absorbed. In particular, if you read comments to blog posts linked to particular article, the level of comprehension of the article itself is often just........missing. The commenter either doesn't read the linked material at all, or else does a defective skim of it.....and then feels possessed of an opinion well-formed enough that they can write and post it. The end product might as well be gabble.
And, if I am not mistaken, this is occurring with increasing frequency.....
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