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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke
You have the internet, you have this message board, the ability to express your opinions is unprecidented.
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But express them to whom? I happen to prefer expressing them here, but not if I want to have an effect on the world.
I'm told that if I want Disney to hear my complaints about the new Haunted Mansion bride, I'd best post them on micechat. Well, I'd rather be dunked in skunk ... but I'd have to change my communicating mode if I want to change Disneyland ... and even moreso if I want to change the world. My rantings on message boards won't quite cut it.
3 seconds of airtime on ABC of a 50,000 person march will get me more change-the-worldness than every post I've ever made on every message board I've ever posted on. The best use of the internet to foster change-the-world communication is enabling people to arrange a mass in-person protest with ease.