Still, I've been using the old Twitter a bit here and there as well over the last - blimey - two months and a bit, and it's fascinating that the algorithm used to compile up-to-date trends removes anything that's been the focus of attention for too long in order to keep the platform constantly talking about only the newest ephemera, which I noticed around the time that some anti-government hashtags seemed to disappear from the trending lists despite being tweeted several thousand times an hour more than the most popular topics that were actually appearing on the list. Tinfoil hat theories abounded at the time (with which I gleefully joined in), but the simple truth is that Twitter is made for nonsense, not sustained conversation, and by design its character limit necessitates a linguistic shorthand that reduces a world of ideas to simple stark words, etc, and I like how we've been invited to willingly embrace this reduction of our most complex thoughts, because if it had for some reason been forced upon us we'd be pretty darn mad, wouldn't we? Far better in the long run to make us embrace our own dumbing-down and inability to have public discourse not just willingly, but enthusiastically.
Twhole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought, rendering
dissent literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to
express it. - See more at:
http://www.eveningtribune.com/article/20141222/Opinion/141229932#sthash.R4fA
The
whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought, rendering
dissent literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to
express it. - See more at:
http://www.eveningtribune.com/article/20141222/Opinion/141229932#sthash.R4fAlyJZ.dpu
I've been going on too long so you're probably not even reading this anymore - I have used literally hundreds of words in this post so far and I just keep making it worse. I'll stop now.
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