Open Thread, May 25 - May 31, 2015

Gondolinian

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I also find it really surprising how they are using media language.

I'm not sure anyone actually verbally said "Strong and empowered", this would have been in a clickbait article someone shared on facebook.

... and then I became enlightened.

Hypothesis: the lack of cynicism in today's young is due to much of their social life being done on Facebook and other social media, and in this type of medium it is a common, easy and obvious thing to do to share articles.

I don't think in 1990 anyone brought me a printed paper mag and asked me to read this article. A handful of times, when it was something truly revolutionary and special, but anything even remotely mainstream not. We did not share our media consumption much. I may have been reading the same heavy metal m... (read more)