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Originally Posted by maleficent
One of the things i hate the most about online communication is the demandingness of people on it and the expectation of an immediate response... I don't want to talk to you right now... it's no different than me screening my phone and not wanting to pick up the phone...
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Agreed. While immediacy garners lots of first impressions, it also tends to eliminate the considered response. Witness call centers.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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