Re: [tuning] fragmentation and extremism

[Alexander Stille of the NYT wrote:]
>>how small fragmented groups of
>>like-minded individuals promote "extremism"

[Jeff wrote:]
>I don't see why the NYTimes is so threatened by this. This
>idea of "small fragmented groups of like-minded
>individuals" used to be called "culture" mhich is now
>being seen as a crime by the frankenfood international
>conglomerates unless said "culture" can be co-opted,
>sodomized by marketers and sold to the public for a fee as
>an enriching experience when I can't even buy plain manure
>to enrich my soil because the same frankenfood
>conglomerates have had manure outlawed as part of their
>attack on small scale organic farming and self-sufficiency
>(which is to be read 'non-dependence on ignoramuses in
>government and their socialist university educated lap
>dogs.'). We outta build a fence around NYC and its
>busybody liberals and let them fight it out among
>themselves rather thatn sticking their noses in everyone
>else's microcultures and telling them what they can do and
>think.

>And speaking of extremeism, I have these opinions
>naturally and not as a result of belonging to any group.
>Frightening isn't it? No way to 'control' those who think
>for themselves is there, NYT editorial board? All the NYT
>editorial board can do in such cases is resort to
>armtwisting, namecalling, pseudocience, backdoor
>legislation & making wrong thoughts and organic gardening
>crimes against the state.

Right on, Brother Jeff!!

JdL