Owl: Wikipedia as a Memory Hole — Journalists as Shills — a Public that Embraces “Protective Stupidity” . . .
From Orwell to Gladwell and Back The technology of power is moving from the past’s emphasis on privacy and concealment toward more contemporary techniques of diversion, bias, misconception, and willful stupidity. The crude methods that George Orwell summed up in his image of the incinerator-chute “memory hole” are growing into more sophisticated devices for providing …