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                                             March    16, 2018
Lee A. Arnold commented:                     March    25, 2018
                                             November 11, 2018
  "But I think that 'curation'
  will be big in the future. I                     http://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/16/were-all-going-to-need-safe-spaces/
  remember years ago I predicted,
  here, that the editorial
  function would grow in
  importance on the internet.
  But maybe it won't be exactly
  that-- more like a combined
  editorial/educational/teaching
  function, involving both
  interlocutors. And we hardly
  know what that will look like."

That's exactly it: we're still missing an
institution and we need it badly if the
internet is going to be something besides a         Or perhaps more than
toy to goof around with.  My take is that in        one institution.
the first ten years of the web we saw a lot of
progress in developing "critical information
infrastructure", but in the second ten years
it all went sideways and people chased bright
and shiny distractions like "mobile apps".

Further Lee A. Arnold remarked:
                            
  "Meanwhile most people don't know how to
  think, yet they are spilling it all over
  the place."

And that's one of the issues, how do we all
learn to think better? Myself, I think the
stuff we usually call "education" is only
part of the answer at best.


Brad DeLong, comments that while he feels
he personally has no trouble deciding who
to pay attention to...

    "The problem is that it does nothing
    to produce a functioning intellectual
    **community**. And that is what we
    really need: we are smart when we are
    part of a functional anthology
    intelligence.  We are dumb when we are
    off on our own. And we are very dumb
    when we are part of a dysfunctional
    combination clown circus and shit
    show-- and there are a lot of people       This is so dead-on, it makes me
    speaking out there who get money or        think I should start reading
    status or pleasure from trying to          Delong again.  I gave up on him
    create dysfunctional combination clown     when he was backing Larry
    circuss and shit shows."                   Summers over Janet Yellen--
                                               perhaps an example of Delong
                                               signing-up for the SS.


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