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Wow, that was a really pretentious article! Back when I was an editor I would have kicked the shit out of any of my writers that turned in a piece with any of the the following words, expressions or sentences:
“Iteration”
“Monotonic”
“actinically focused”
“massive, pyroclastic flows of opinion”
“nekulturn”
“nuanced Gedanken experiments about speculative change”
“garish calamities that began quenching this naive zeal for progress”
“Or will the Web's centrifugal effects spin us all into little islands of shared conviction -- midget Nuremberg rallies -- where facts become irrelevant and any opinion can be a memic god?”
“One wherein expertise is lost and democracy becomes a tyranny of lobotomized imitation and short-tempered reflex, as viral YouTube moments spread everywhere instantaneously, getting everybody laughing or nodding or seething to the same memes -- an extreme resonance of reciprocal mimicry or hyper-mimesis. And everybody hyper-empowered to react impulsively at almost the speed of thought.”
Ouch!
