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el gato malo's avatar

no medium is perfect and all have trade offs.

it's harder to lie in person or to mask the sort of person you are.

but it's easier to lie about data and to build rapid mass formation. virtual is great for ideas and for data because everyone can engage with it fully and take time to digest and respond or to fact check.

it's not about "better" so much as "trade offs."

but the two favor different sorts of people. king of the internet is rarely king of the office.

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The Wiltster's avatar

No huge dispute about any of this, although I might be careful stating, definitively, which is "easier." As usual I agree with you, about which SEEMS easier, both philosophically and from my own experience. History seems to disagree with both of us, at least a little bit, based upon one author and one book!

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