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"Everyone has opinions, but few people seem to have any wisdom" writes Schultze in Chapter 8. Excuse me, but there's plenty to be found. While it is often true that we find that "In Cyberculture, people are slow to reflect and quick to vent", there is plenty of refelction to be found. And if not, then we provide some. If "digital messaging offers us no peace to contemplate our direction in life", then let's be salt. I find it a bit shallow to generalize so broadly about a medium, particularly when I have found there to be so much of worth to be found, and so much yet to be created. Dr. Schultze gave us this book I am critiquing. So let's take our literacy online and set better examples. Let's do some work on raising the level of discourse. Let's define and embody the "virtuous" in our online interactions. Let's tell the story that we feel needs to be told. And let's open up the dialogue. Let's even ask them what's wrong with the traditional institutions, and also what's right. Let's ask ourselves. Let's dream and envision what we can do to define and describe what this "good life" is that Dr. Schultze holds up as the community to which we should aspire. Don't tell me this can't be done online. Maybe it COULD be done better in person, but what if it just isn't being done? Is it some kind of sick mutation to try to communicate this to those who might listen? I don't think so.

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