You’ll possibly remember my brief mention of Sunstein in a January post. We should ban speech of certain types? Sunstein must not have much faith in democratic man to decide what’s what; I can’t say I blame him, although again I suspect that’s not his motivation. Rather, I’d hazard that the decentralized, most-everyone-has-a-say nature of the internet is, for lack of a more cogent term, freaking out the doctrinal managers. (This link should show what fun, however glib, it can be to follow — not imitate — the paranoid style: see the bar about the Earth’s magnetic field and the Sun’s X-rays, which may just be harmless curiosity about astronomical phenomena, or maybe not).
Jones’s arguments aside, it seems clear that “the paranoid style” has never gone out of fashion, and perhaps rightly so. Go back to the ’70s.
Could it be individualism gone awry? Without a frame, people are more likely to become unhinged. A theme to explore next time. For now, enjoy another take, The Quigley Formula (~30Mb mp3).
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