Remember trying to choose that perfect, cleverly representative AIM screen name in middle school? As the first generation to have grown up with easily accessible network technologies, we have been faced with the challenging task of managing our online identity from an early age. In a contribution to The New York Times, Alice Mathias ‘07 claims that our “generation has long been bizarrely comfortable with being looked at…we are reckless with our personal information.”
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The common explanation for George W. Bush’s election and re-election was that he was the candidate “voters would rather have a beer with” (even though Bush is a recovering alcoholic and does not drink). Today, comparison between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has been greatly sidetracked by voters’ subjective, personal and arbitrary emotional reactions. Perceptions of “likeability” and “inspiration” dominate political discussions at the expense of comparisons between policy positions.
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To the Editor:
Max Bryer ‘08’s column (“Grow Up, Conservapedia,” Feb. 19) was merely a childish jab at people he does not agree with and a liberal mirror image to his main point of contention in the piece. What initially appears to be a commentary on a pertinent issue — misinformation on the Internet — devolves into a personal rant against conservatives. Misinformation on the Internet is a problem that extends well beyond the political sphere, but he portrays the problem as solely the fault of the political right and has the gall to implicate all conservatives as contributors to the problem. This is not a “conservative problem,” and treating it as such distorts the truth as much as Conservapedia might.
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