http://www.bloggernews.net/17049 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:13:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/17049#comment-30645 John Borrelli Sat, 26 May 2007 21:50:56 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/17049#comment-30645 I think the internet with it's "unwashed masses" hits a nerve with these types of elitists. Imagine if we could have seen the average blog entry from a student of Aristotle?Perhaps some e-mail from a Roman Guard on the frontier in Brittain to his family in Rome. Maybe a social networking site from Colonial America around 1775 or so? This is the stuff of life. The use of the 'net for blogging makes the world a little more connected on a level that is almost imperceptible. These impressions we make on people that might read our words may leave them with some understanding of a diffrent point of view. How horrible! A world where people might understand each other instead of kill each other. This very concept does seem worry those in power. Real discussion always does.The real question is: Why should it bother the leaders of the best (albeit less than perfect) democracy in the world? Hmmmmm. I think the internet with it’s “unwashed masses” hits a nerve with these types of elitists. Imagine if we could have seen the average blog entry from a student of Aristotle?Perhaps some e-mail from a Roman Guard on the frontier in Brittain to his family in Rome. Maybe a social networking site from Colonial America around 1775 or so? This is the stuff of life.
The use of the ‘net for blogging makes the world a little more connected on a level that is almost imperceptible. These impressions we make on people that might read our words may leave them with some understanding of a diffrent point of view. How horrible! A world where people might understand each other instead of kill each other. This very concept does seem worry those in power. Real discussion always does.The real question is: Why should it bother the leaders of the best (albeit less than perfect) democracy in the world? Hmmmmm.

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