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You said: "You know, you come across as condescending and overly simplistic. Big words bother you? that's how the downward spiral starts."
I never said I had a problem with big words or clever, beautiful language. All I said was that Brin's prose in this particular article was pretentious and overblown. Look at the example I gave:
“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.”
A 55 word sentence of pure purple bullshit. The whole article is like that; like it was written by a meth addict on a three day bender.Why you're getting all persnickety and assuming that I'm attacking intelligent, thoughtful writing is beyond me.
