The Danger of Having a Voice
Clarence Fisher,
Sept 21, 2011
Another post documenting the abuse public personas endure online. "Seriously," she asks, "who writes a Twitter feed to mock the skull of a 10-month-old?" It's a good question. And more seriously, "Where did we learn to become so cruel to each other?" Clarence Fisher writes, "I’m not sure what drives people to post comments like those this author talks about." This is the crux. "The mass of men," writes Thoreau, "lead lives of quiet desperation." With the internet, these lives are no longer quiet. And we have been schooled, become skilled, in the art of the vicious put-down, the cruel one-liner, through the likes of Springer, O'Reilly and Cowell. Television has wrecked society, or at least, the civility in society, and continues to do so.
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