tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810514527237098008.post4212703623097617858..comments2023-10-16T06:52:23.061-04:00Comments on Notes From The Outside: Filter BubblesBrandonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12704525078859327898noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810514527237098008.post-39045155005212149732012-09-22T10:22:31.329-04:002012-09-22T10:22:31.329-04:00Yeah, I don't fit in either camp completely ei...Yeah, I don't fit in either camp completely either. Part of the problem seems to be the pigeonholing process itself forcing artificial divisions on people. These days I look at the left wing and the right wing and feel suspicious of the whole bird...<br /><br />Hey, have you seen this?<br /><br />http://vimeo.com/49544042<br /><br />A "new" found video essay from Ed Abbey that was supposed to air in 1985 but never did. One of the producers recently dug it up and shared it.delhttp://del.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810514527237098008.post-13075327884416097772012-09-15T21:48:40.365-04:002012-09-15T21:48:40.365-04:00certainly, the the validity of the opposing viewpo...certainly, the the <i>validity</i> of the opposing viewpoints wasn't my point, necessarily. One needs the whole picture, both sides, to be an informed voter/citizen/person. If you're bathing yourself in only the one side, your still ignorant, however noble you consider your position to be. I'm guilty of this myself, to an extent, though I try to be aware of it. <br /><br />And really, conservatives do have some worthwhile points, and I find that, while basically a progressive, I don't fall neatly into the camps that live to the left; it's more complex than that, and the way they've drawn the lines cut through my positions on things.<br /><br />As for your Clovis spear, that'd sure be an interesting take on workplace violence. Good luck with that sir. ;)Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12704525078859327898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810514527237098008.post-68012769827757878802012-09-15T11:11:34.200-04:002012-09-15T11:11:34.200-04:00At the risk of proving your point about the "...At the risk of proving your point about the "hall of mirrors," I'll say this:<br /><br />Just because you're dismissing dissenting viewpoints out of hand as closed-minded conservative shills for big business doesn't mean that they *aren't* closed-minded conservative shills for big business. That we've come to a place where we feel we need to give everyone's views equal weight -- even when those views are ignorant, dangerous, bad for the common good, or just plain wrong -- shows just how far off track we've gone as a society. To a point, not suffering fools is a virtue, one we've forgotten about in this age of the "balanced" and "fair" news media. The Internet gives the fools an equal-sized megaphone. :-)<br /><br />On the "con" side of the Internet, I work with web servers and web content at my job. All too often I see really smart people spend huge amounts of time and energy building websites that ultimately return literally zero hits for their efforts because they don't know the latest whiz-bang HTML/CSS and search engine optimization tricks. Rather than network and seek out and talk to people they basically wasted their time futzing with the technology. The Internet effectively silenced them because they couldn't conjure the arcane tech or their point was too subtle for google to index properly. [I probably shouldn't talk, as my own blog has like two regulars - you being one of them - so I'm feeling pretty "silenced" by the Interwebs these days, too.]<br /><br />For my midlife crisis I'm going to get heavy into Paleo-skills. I'll go into work one morning armed with a Clovis-tipped spear and an atlatl and then we'll see what happens. Should make for an interesting news blurb on Yahoo's portal site. ;-)delhttp://del.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.com