I see I have, in my distaste for hype, given you reason to conflate my attitude regarding the tone of the article mentioned and your assumptions about my attitude towards the potential inherent in the new media that computers and the Internet provide to those talented with the gift of creativity.1 My apologies.

I'd like to point out that I did not say, "all communication should be media-free." I said that I would like to see a place where communication could occur in a media-free environment. I have a dream ... of people discussing ideas and philosophies calmly and rationally, considering them on their own merits instead of the hype that surrounds them2. Perhaps that doesn't make me an intellectual; it makes me a freak.

I wrote several further paragraphs in this vein, but then discussed at length essentially the same topic in the cheddarbox and elected to delete what would be little more than an invitation to flame.

"To rational thought, and the pursuit of dreams, two commodities that seem to be in short supply these days: May they always complement each other, and may they never need collide."

1 3 Ah, the joy of large vocabularies. :)
2 See Also: American Presidential Races, post-1960.
3 Footnotes are your friends.

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