These two seen fundamentally different. Is vote for the latter everytime.
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Replying to @aaronv
So would I. Which makes it a much more effective means of control.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
That seems like extraordinarily weak and risky control. I wouldn't call it control, an informed populace makes a functional democracy.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Aren't you getting close to "if everything is a form of control than nothing is"?
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
But if uninformed and over-informed are both control what is left. Just-the-right-amount-informed? Who decides that?
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Replying to @aaronv
I don't know whether it's possible to be overinformed. I was actually referring to the proliferation of *misleading* knowledge that gives people the confidence that they know exactly what's going on, when in fact, they don't. I should perhaps have used the word "data" instead.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @aaronv
Analogy: East is sitting in a library with 1 book. West is in a library full of books, but has very poor reading ability
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And they're unable to discern fiction from nonfiction.
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