Benjamin Kunkel poses the question: Is my life richer with high speed internet? His answer: No. He is too brilliant and elite to concern himself with online content, which he considers to be inferior to practically everything ever published. Which suggests he hasn’t read much trashy fiction. And which is ironic since his diatribe against online content is found… online.

My life is infinitely richer with ubiquitous wireless internet. I do a lot of work on the computer- and I always have- and it’s nice to be in touch with people online. I like being on the computer. And just for the record, I like lots of other things too.

He writes:

“The truth is that we are often bored to death by what we find online”

His article is certainly a case in point.

As Julia puts it via text message:

shit like this is why i can’t finish grad school

I think that people who complain about how the internet and texting is destroying the written word are missing the forest for the trees. Yes, it is undeniable that texting doesn’t happen in Oxford English, but neither does practically anything else, and IT NEVER HAS. Idiosyncratic grammar is commonplace. The golden age of literacy is now.