Comments on: Some thoughts on social networking sites http://jebert.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/some-thoughts-on-social-networking-sites/ Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mike Van Winkle http://jebert.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/some-thoughts-on-social-networking-sites/#comment-4 Mike Van Winkle Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:51:43 +0000 http://jebert.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-4 You write: "Maybe through the rise in technological dependency it is becoming increasingly harder to have meaningful discourse on a given subject." Indeed, I think there's something to this. Between the rapidly growing amount of information out there and the growing skepticism about the "big questions," perhaps the culture has talked itself out. It's a little depressing to think that culturally we've hit a dead end, but there are days it certainly seems that way. You write: “Maybe through the rise in technological dependency it is becoming increasingly harder to have meaningful discourse on a given subject.”

Indeed, I think there’s something to this. Between the rapidly growing amount of information out there and the growing skepticism about the “big questions,” perhaps the culture has talked itself out. It’s a little depressing to think that culturally we’ve hit a dead end, but there are days it certainly seems that way.

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