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The Internet is Evil
posted Tuesday, 11 December 2007
From a Shocklines thread today:
 Posts: 216 (12/11/07 3:45 am) Reply |  Re: What or who is the greatest evil in the world? No, I tee-heed at the comment above this one--that this thread was starting to rank up there with the greatest evils in the world.
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Nemonymous  Posts: 228 (12/11/07 3:56 am) Reply | | Re: What or who is the greatest evil in the world? This thread is starting to rank up there. Indeed. The Internet is evil because it increases, by default, hypochondria, terrorism, misinformation, aggression, time-wasting, belief-that-everyone-is-famous and threads like this one. "From the cosmic point of view, to have opinions or preferences at all is to be ill." | |||
rileybooks  Posts: 547 (12/11/07 4:11 am) Reply | Re: What or who is the greatest evil in the world? "This thread is starting to rank up there. Indeed. The Internet is evil because it increases, by default, hypochondria, terrorism, misinformation, aggression, time-wasting, belief-that-everyone-is-famous and threads like this one." And anonymity, Des. Don't forget that.
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| Nemonymous Posts: 229 (12/11/07 4:18 am) Reply | | Re: What or who is the greatest evil in the world? And anonymity, Des. Don't forget that. ========== The Two Ways of Anonymity (one) The most common way - to say something you don't want to be known as saying, i.e. for *devious* purposes (which could be spite, nepotism, insult, cruelty, dubious joke etc etc.) -- or publishing pornography, or issuing a Valentine's card, or hiding one's identity to avoid reputation depletion etc. (two) A way that is hardly ever used - to make an artistic statement (within the philosophy of Aesthetics), such as Nemonymity, (i) whereby the fiction author wants some objective view of his work to be made without his name getting in the way -- and I, as an editor, equally don't want it to get in the way when I consider his submission for publication and (ii) as an experiment in fiction anthology presentation as a new gestalt reading experience (i.e. stories written independently and remaining separate yet somehow more 'together') and (iii) leading to a brainstorming approach to reviews and critical appreciation and (iv) bringing fiction nearer to the artist-naming (late-labelling) approach of other arts such as fine arts, architecture, music etc. (instead of having the name on the spine, on the title page and, often, on the top of each alternate page throughout the book) and (v) trying to bring fiction more easily to an interstitial or between/cross-genre optimum. There, I agree, David, that it is true to say that (one) above brings anonymity into disrepute, a cross which Nemonymous has to bear. PS: And anonymity, in the sense of (one), therefore, can be seen to be part of another evil enabled by the Internet: something I left off my list above: Fraud. PPS: And maybe Freud? ;-) "From the cosmic point of view, to have opinions or preferences at all is to be ill." | |||
1. Weirdmonger left...
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 12:53 pm
Good disseminates itself autonomously.
Good did this before the Internet. Will do so again after the Internet.
Evil will be evil with or without the Internet, but the Internet
disseminates evil more easily as a default.
Internet has a lot of good about it, but the above 'evil default' tends to
neutralise this good.
IMHO