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Gerrit Eicker 08:37 on 9. January 2009 Permalink
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  Gerrit Eicker 08:56 on 9. January 2009 Permalink | Reply

  Brin: “Very few good things ever happened as gifts of circumstance, without iteration and hard work. … Processes that work – markets, democracy, science – foster not only the introduction of fresh variety and new things but also a winnowing of those that don’t work. … Today’s Web and blogosphere have just one part of this two-stage rhythm. Sure, bullshit makes great fertilizer. But (mixing metaphors a bit) shouldn’t there be ways to let pearls rise and noxious stuff go away, like phlogiston and Baal worship? Beyond imagination and creativity and opinion, we also need a dance of Shiva, destroying the insipid, vicious and untrue. … But there is another option. A market could replicate the creative (and creatively destructive) power of evolution in the realm of good and bad ideas, just as our older markets sift and cull myriad goods and services. That is, if the Web offered tools of critical appraisal and discourse. Tools up to the task. … But what matters even more is to step back from yet another tiresome dichotomy, between fizzy enthusiasm and testy nostalgia. Earlier phases of the great Enlightenment experiment managed to do this by taking a wider perspective. By taking nothing for granted. – If we prove incapable of doing this, then maybe those who worry about the latest generation’s devolution are right after all.“

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