Mr. Shirky: Here I think the lesson is, there is no such thing as information overload. Or rather, we’ve been in information overload since 1500. Which is roughly the year there was more written material to be read than a human being could read in a lifetime.
What we’re dealing with now is filter failure.
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Change the world!
Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it’s a primal calling.
God is the answer…
God is the answer when you don’t know the answer.
When things don’t circulate…
When things don’t circulate, they get rancid.
Because it is trash that builds…
Because it is trash that builds the background against which a person’s tastes and predilections emerge in all their distinctness and precision.
It was the best of times…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…
The literature of the illiterate
Television is the literature of the illiterate.
If you assume people are rational…
Nothing in this life makes sense if you assume people are rational most of the time.
Our expectations influence our perceptions…
Our expectations influence our perceptions, and we look for evidence that confirms our beliefs.
When the winds of change are blowing…
When the winds of change are blowing, some people are building shelters and others are building windmills.
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