The Hyperlink Is The Message

What do you think it means of a culture where every idea we have can be expressed on a page, with a direct link from everything we have to say to another thing that explains that thing? Do you think it’d make us more appreciative of context? Do you think we’d like things more if we could always be comfortable knowing a cite was backing us up? Or do you think that we’d start to replicate that same expression with other peoplewith the idea that every piece of text was obligated to provide its own citations and depth? Do you think it’s a coincidence that the current generation of toxic masculinity takes the form of nerds being confident that they are The Rightest each time?

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