Years ago, when personal computers were first arriving on the scene,
many of us teachers thought they would aid students in becoming
literate. After all, our main interaction with the CPU was via a
typewriter keyboard. We were all key-pounders now. Then came email and even local networks and networked classrooms.
Valhalla for composition teachers, for all teachers who wanted to
foster collaboration and "critical thinking." Students (or workers)
could communicate via email. Then a funny thing happened. People started writing outrageous and
mean things. I remember reading that at one firm employees had to
leave by separate, designated exits because the R wars had become so
intense. We see it everywhere. The computer brings out the beast, usually in
the form of an ad hominem attack. Along comes twitter and a presidential election season. Instant
Twitter wars on arcana like the chimichinga. Grown men become posturing, babbling, idiots. Twitter must be destroyed. Twitter delenda est.
many of us teachers thought they would aid students in becoming
literate. After all, our main interaction with the CPU was via a
typewriter keyboard. We were all key-pounders now. Then came email and even local networks and networked classrooms.
Valhalla for composition teachers, for all teachers who wanted to
foster collaboration and "critical thinking." Students (or workers)
could communicate via email. Then a funny thing happened. People started writing outrageous and
mean things. I remember reading that at one firm employees had to
leave by separate, designated exits because the R wars had become so
intense. We see it everywhere. The computer brings out the beast, usually in
the form of an ad hominem attack. Along comes twitter and a presidential election season. Instant
Twitter wars on arcana like the chimichinga. Grown men become posturing, babbling, idiots. Twitter must be destroyed. Twitter delenda est.