Re this giant conversation… this collective linguistic technology-augmented hallucination…

It’s good because it ignores space. You can talk to anybody all over the world instantaneously.

It’s bad because it is dominated by the loudest

It’s good because we can render our ideas in a broad menu of options. Text, sound, video

It’s bad because it does not differentiate between levels of abstraction. First-hand accounts carry the same weight as fifth-hand acccounts.

It’s good because it’s convenient. Smartphones.

It’s bad because it exists entirely apart from the world. Asserting a world-ness of its own. And that’s a seductive argument.

It’s good and bad because it supplies infinite entertainment.

It is strong and weak the way all language is strong and weak.

That’s all that one person could come up with in 5 minutes. Theoretically the combined intellect of the internet’s billions might come up with a couple more.