[ArchStanton]

>It's not hard to find highly opinionated people making assumptions while confidently believing they're right. If you look closely, you'll notice this all the time on HN and Reddit and basically anywhere that allows people to comment.

C'est la vie. The internet allows millions of people to opine on barstools.

It might simply be that our standards for the written word were too high before as it required a large investment to write/print/distribute a magazine or book.

[mistermann]

> C'est la vie. The internet allows millions of people to opine on barstools.

It may be interesting if there was a social media platform that exerted some sophisticated control over the manner in which this phenomenon plays out. If adequately successful, the way "la vie" is, would then be different.