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Downsizing Democracy:  How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public


 

Andrew Sullivan follows up iPod article with this one:

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20050306

It has an interesting thesis: all the technologies which wall us off from each other also greatly facilitate the erosion of privacy. Cell phones get hacked and private emails widely distributed.

This suggests that as the quality of our public life has eroded, so too has the quality of our private life. The health of one may very well depend on the health of the other.


  posted by Silver @ 10:02 PM


Thursday, March 10, 2005  
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