So that’s why Al Gore invented the internet!
August 20, 2010
by Lance Burri
The Cost of Distraction: What Kurt Vonnegut Knew
An excerpt:
Consider the manner in which the advantages of the intellectually gifted are equalized in Vonnegut’s story — distraction, regular and constant distraction. The story provides a vivid and disturbing image of the consequences of perpetual distraction.
Tell you what, between Al Gore’s uber-distracting internet, turning us all into equally-incapable thinkers, and Barack Obama’s subtle manipulation of the electorate to give him an enemy he can run against in 2012, I’m starting to think these Democrats are smarter than we give them credit for.
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Naah. He invented it to meet masseuses (sp) who would align his chakras.