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Stephen Downes

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Good point about the use of language: "The metaphors we use determine how we see the world. When we're calling all stories, songs, news, gossip, and bedtime stories the bland 'content', we reinforce that they're contained by something." And if it's 'content', it's automatically something that's owned, bought and sold, a commodity, rather than (say) culture, values, language, art or meaning. Via Jon Dron.

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