popular video hits than filmed evidence of Burmese atrocities or North Korean starvation. The internet spawns more giggling or aroused couch potatoes than angry activists.The technological belief in the end of history is based on the faith that, confronted with the cornucopia of freedom's delights, people will want to be like western secular consumers. In fact, as [Evgeny] Morozov shows, the net has given new life to both nationalism and cultish religions.
from Bryan Appleyard: New Statesman: The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World
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