tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8851395.post830950864955847481..comments2023-09-09T11:56:04.929-07:00Comments on Pascal Fervor: New Media Will Have Supplanted Old Media When?Pascalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00303025432356543062noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8851395.post-69460350750035581532007-06-06T18:17:00.000-07:002007-06-06T18:17:00.000-07:00I'm not deriding the potential of new media by any...I'm not deriding <I>the potential</I> of new media by any means Og. What I have done for the Internet is to provide it a goal that will inform us we have surely succeeded. <BR/><BR/>Think about this Og. You certainly know of the history of the ancient Sophists. The widespread promotion of attractive but self-serving arguments has been the demagogue's strength and democracy's weakness ever since Athens. <BR/><BR/>Certainly the deliberate destruction of language is the simplest of sophistries. Get enough people to declare that black is white and rational people won't be able to have meaningful discourse unless they succeed in shutting down the means by which the lie is spread. <BR/><BR/>When the Internet succeeds in reusing the old words such that the new pejoratives have become but a memory, then you will know it has succeeded. And we will have been liberated anew. <BR/><BR/>Where can we get a widespread agreement to post a list of important words and then agree to use them on the Internet only with their pre-Newspeak meanings?Pascalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303025432356543062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8851395.post-20859430270371573262007-06-06T14:52:00.000-07:002007-06-06T14:52:00.000-07:00New things always begin by looking like the things...New things always begin by looking like the things they replace. Then they develop their own identity. Rubber and plastic began by being made to look like leather. Cars looked like buggies. Computers looked like typewriters. Automatic lathes looked like manual lathes. The new media is going to hit it's stride- but not for a while.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com