Aug 31
How things are changing
I was just watching the Signs movie, by M. Night Shymalan. There is a point where crop circles appear all over the world simultaneously.
There is some discussion on this, on all these people being “in on it together.” Which of course, is being taken as preposterous.
Things are changing, because now… people could do that. Someone sufficiently motivated can develop a group, and get thousands, even millions “in on it”, within weeks, months. Thanks to the extraordinarily low cost of groups, of getting the message out, it is ridiculously easy.
Thats how much things are changing, because of the Internet. A very recent movie, is being invalidated. That is amazing.
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Indeed that’s an interesting point to keep in mind. SomethingAweful, 4chan, et. al., groups that already have tremendous (either good, bad, or simply funny) influence over “the internets” are already slipping into the “Real World”. For such large and established groups, mobilizing members for good “lolz” is trivial.
I know. No one knows what to do, as we’re used to a edit then publish model, but now… its a publish then filter model. Its a vastly different world for us, Tony. And the influence of groups over vast geographical, age, race, and creed lines is also unprecedented.
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