Submitted by club penguin (not verified) on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 2:06am.
The Church wasn't destroyed in the way you imagine; it persists today, and in fact makes uses of the Internet as much as you do. The printing press was revolutionary, but it didn't quite do all that radical democratizing you imagine, because only elites were literate. And these "stark choices" didn't have to be made, and surely don't have to be made now with such reckless abandon -- this is just goofy giddiness about some tools that produce 20 percent of voters reading political blogs?
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The Church wasn't destroyed
The Church wasn't destroyed in the way you imagine; it persists today, and in fact makes uses of the Internet as much as you do. The printing press was revolutionary, but it didn't quite do all that radical democratizing you imagine, because only elites were literate. And these "stark choices" didn't have to be made, and surely don't have to be made now with such reckless abandon -- this is just goofy giddiness about some tools that produce 20 percent of voters reading political blogs?