--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > >> You just think you can evaluate things because you have Google. > >> You mistake information for context and it makes you feel smart > >> when you are clueless. > > > > Excellent point. > > > > Google is like the curtain that the "wizard" hides > > behind in The Wizard Of Oz. And the person behind > > the curtain *likes* the curtain and *hates* "Pay > > no attention to the man behind the curtain" because > > the curtain hides the fact that there was never ary > > reason why anyone *should* have paid attention to > > him in the first place. The only thing he's *ever* > > done is sit behind a curtain and Google shit. :-) > > > > There are whole generations of people now who don't > > feel that there is any difference between "Live" and > > "Memorex." When it comes to searching for information > > to bolster their rants, prejudices, and to help them > > "win" their petty tyrant battles, Google is *enough* > > for them to consider themselves an expert, someone > > who *should* be paid attention to. > > Whatever happened to casual conversation?
Or, even more sorely missed, conversation as an art form, in which the purpose is to entertain and be entertained. > We seem to be in an age of "exactitude" where everybody so > concerned that they may be wrong about something they spend > time looking stuff up on Google before they post. I think it's more fundamental than that. A lot of people *simply don't have anything to say* unless they can look up something said by someone else to parrot. > Imagine if we were trying to have a conversation around a > table in restaurant or bar this way. Everyone would be > jumping on their laptop, tablet or smartphone before they > said a word. And some would be incapable of saying anything at all without being able to look up something to say.
