http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/06/stupid-season/ The Sweet Release of Reason Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/06/stupid-season/#comment-17694 Tom Hanna Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:07:53 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1887#comment-17694 I've been looking forward to temporary partial relief since election day 2000, but every time I think it might almost be here, I hear again the canard that Gore won Florida. I've been looking forward to temporary partial relief since election day 2000, but every time I think it might almost be here, I hear again the canard that Gore won Florida.

]]> http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/06/stupid-season/#comment-17695 adina Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:59:41 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1887#comment-17695 The internet increases the polarizing effect. In the real world, just going through our day forces us to associate with people with all kinds of opinions. When I was on a medical internship, by the time I found out that a friend was a Marxist, I had already known that I enjoyed his company, so his politics didn't phase me at all. Meanwhile, I tend to ignore most Marxists on the internet. <br>People on the internet (and especially people who don't leave their apartments enough) become very angry, because they only see politics of enemies and politics of friends, but don't see who can make good impressions or who is fun to go hiking with or who has some cool collection of whatnot. The internet increases the polarizing effect. In the real world, just going through our day forces us to associate with people with all kinds of opinions. When I was on a medical internship, by the time I found out that a friend was a Marxist, I had already known that I enjoyed his company, so his politics didn't phase me at all. Meanwhile, I tend to ignore most Marxists on the internet.
People on the internet (and especially people who don't leave their apartments enough) become very angry, because they only see politics of enemies and politics of friends, but don't see who can make good impressions or who is fun to go hiking with or who has some cool collection of whatnot.

]]> http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/06/stupid-season/#comment-17693 Tom Hanna Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:07:53 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1887#comment-17693 I've been looking forward to temporary partial relief since election day 2000, but every time I think it might almost be here, I hear again the canard that Gore won Florida. I've been looking forward to temporary partial relief since election day 2000, but every time I think it might almost be here, I hear again the canard that Gore won Florida.

]]> http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/06/stupid-season/#comment-17692 adina Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:59:41 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1887#comment-17692 The internet increases the polarizing effect. In the real world, just going through our day forces us to associate with people with all kinds of opinions. When I was on a medical internship, by the time I found out that a friend was a Marxist, I had already known that I enjoyed his company, so his politics didn't phase me at all. Meanwhile, I tend to ignore most Marxists on the internet. <br>People on the internet (and especially people who don't leave their apartments enough) become very angry, because they only see politics of enemies and politics of friends, but don't see who can make good impressions or who is fun to go hiking with or who has some cool collection of whatnot. The internet increases the polarizing effect. In the real world, just going through our day forces us to associate with people with all kinds of opinions. When I was on a medical internship, by the time I found out that a friend was a Marxist, I had already known that I enjoyed his company, so his politics didn't phase me at all. Meanwhile, I tend to ignore most Marxists on the internet.
People on the internet (and especially people who don't leave their apartments enough) become very angry, because they only see politics of enemies and politics of friends, but don't see who can make good impressions or who is fun to go hiking with or who has some cool collection of whatnot.

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