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"Real-life activities that do not have an online correlate begin to atrophy, or cease to be relevant. There is an insurmountable asymmetry that degrades any local event or exchange. Because of the infinity of content accessible 24/7, there will always be something online more informative, surprising, funny, diverting, impressive than anything in one's own immediate actual circumstances."

"Beyond the vacuity of the catchphrase, 24/7 is a static redundancy that disavows its relation to the rhythmic and periodic textures of human life. It connotes an arbitrary, uninflected schema of a week, extracted from any unfolding of variegated or cumulative experience."

"The consumers of news have some important obligations here as well. I have for recommendations for you, the readers, when approaching the news: be humbler, be ecumenical, be less cynical, and be a lot more discriminating."

"People do not do 'research' so much as they 'search for pretty pages online to provide answers they like with the least amount of effort and in the shortest time.' The resulting flood of information, always of varying quality and sometimes of uncertain sanity, creates a veneer of knowledge that actually leaves people worse off than if they knew nothing at all."

"Emotion is an unassailable defense against expertise, a moat of anger and resentment in which reason and knowledge quickly drown."