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Why are our hypertexts so hard to fathom?
The playwright David Mamet writes:
The warm glow of fashion on the left and patriotism on the right evidence individual's power to elect themselves members of a group superior to reason. …
The stockbroker is not going to lie awake worrying about truths or questions raised by a framed canvase painted one shade of green (which is why he or she purchased it)."
We can too easily fall into neat self-referential camps, responding to each other, reinforcing our beliefs (and mistakes) while the world falls apart all around us.
