More baseless fear-mongering
Here’s what one American academic thinks: that “the way in which people frantically communicate online via Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern madness.” You can read the hysteria here, if you like.
This brings to mind what might have been an earlier news report:
In other news, the Holy Roman Church stepped up its attack on the new invention called “the printing press.”
“We are gravely concerned that the mass production of these so-called Bibles in English will have the effect of coming between God-fearing Christians and the church that the Lord created to deliver his message,” said Archbishop Jacub Mumblecorp. “People were not intended to study the Lord’s word on their own, and certainly not in English, the language of the masses. We fear this will lead to misinterpretation, confusion, and isolation.”
Because, you see, every time new technology arrives that gives more people access to information and communication, there’s an established ideology immediately threatened by it.
January 24th, 2011 at 4:15 am
I seem to recall something about ancient Greek philosophers debating whether the written alphabet would have a deleterious efect on Culture. Remember, Homer composed the ODYSSEY ages before it as written down.
January 24th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
In 1948, attendees to a Catholic retreat heard a priest bespeak how, “…evil will come from this Television” About 10 years later, CBS kept the frame above Elvis Presley’s pelvis. Evil, yeah right.
January 24th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
…or depending how you look at it, it could also be known as fear-mongering your base.