mjgardner, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) This is an endemic problem in all discourse, on or off #SocialMedia. The paraphrase becomes the dominant meme (in the original #RichardDawkins sense) and hearsay becomes conventional “wisdom.” I try to countervail in subjects that matter to me (the #Perl #programming language and #AynRand’s #philosophy of #Objectivism) and echo @nova’s advice: seek primary and authoritative sources and question dismissive paraphrasing. https://hachyderm.io/@nova/110269313981320765
This is an endemic problem in all discourse, on or off #SocialMedia. The paraphrase becomes the dominant meme (in the original #RichardDawkins sense) and hearsay becomes conventional “wisdom.”
I try to countervail in subjects that matter to me (the #Perl #programming language and #AynRand’s #philosophy of #Objectivism) and echo @nova’s advice: seek primary and authoritative sources and question dismissive paraphrasing. https://hachyderm.io/@nova/110269313981320765
