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In honor of my dear friend Richard Metzger’s stint as a BB guestblogger beginning today, I dug up this link to a Wired interview I did with Richard that was published exactly 10 years ago this month. Wow, time sure flies when we’re having fun. From the interview, titled “Live From Bedlam”:
Wired: Information wants to be free, but does it want to be true?
Metzger: All information is from questionable sources. In the marketplace of ideas, what value does falsehood have once it’s exposed?…
So what’s behind the growing public fixation on the fringe?
Ten years ago all of this would have been so marginal. As we become more technologically advanced, we move further away from anything real, any real ecstatic religious experiences or gnosis. People are freaking out because they see Jerry Springer’s white-trash crack whores on TV and schoolkids ambushing classmates with Uzis. How much more fucked up can things get? [...]