Monday, August 1, 2011

Googling for madness

Breivik was utterly inconsistent. He describes himself as a Christian, a Freemason and an Odinist (a revival of Scandinavian paganism). The two figures he most admires are Vladimir Putin and Benedict XVI. He budgets for an orgy with prostitutes to be arranged “just before or after I attend my final martyrs’ mass in Frogner Church.” He speaks with the gravitas of both a theologian and a new atheist. . . . He rails against the destruction of family values and wants to implement a one-child policy in the developing world to save the environment. (He was a fan of transhumanism and reprogenetics.)

. . . It has all been compiled with Wikipedia’s air of no-nonsense academic detachment, from its analysis of Muslim demography to description of how to purchase weapons for a mass murder. In short, it is a 778,257-word demonstration that Google not only capable of making us stupid, . . . but violent and full of hate. Mercatornet

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