One aspect of Carr's piece that jumps out at me is that he seems to speak of online activism in the abstract, as something taking place out in the aether without
much connection to the real world.
Not exact matches
Republicans fall for it because the have no
real connection with most Americans... the need it
to get control of the country... Christians fall for it because they use the black and white issue of abortion and gay and lesbian marriage... while completely ignore the harvest field of the Muslim
world because they have guns adn will kill you if yo uso
much as fart while Muhammad is takign a dump... there's billion Muslims and very few Christians willin
to go there... it's obvious a job for a million Christians a
real million man and woman army willin gto die for Jesus Christ and stop talkign all the time about abortin abortion abortion and the gay thisn and anythinng else..
While we may believe in the Holy Spirit as a manifestation of God's presence in the
world, we sometimes wonder if the church's early theologians invented this
connection as an explanation of the continuity between Jesus and themselves, and if this invention didn't in turn and inadvertently lead
to orthodox formulations about the Trinity that belied the Spirit's reality,
much as the Kinsey Report misleads readers about the
real joy and meaning of sex.
We understand that finding love is hard in the
real world and we want
to make sure that when you try online dating, you will find making a
connection much easier.
While American Dreamz does base most of its satire on
real -
world people and events, ultimately, it is too
much of a fantasy
to really make more than a passing
connection to the actual counterparts, effectively diffusing the incendiary qualities that really would have made a lasting impression.
In as
much as there is a kind of hovering
connection to the
real world, artists working in abstraction directly before and after AbEx — for instance, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, Paul Feeley or Kenneth Noland — seem
much more like kindred spirits.
So it's possible that shrinking sea ice in the Arctic could increase snowfall over Siberia, pushing the jet stream southward, creating summer high pressures in Europe that allow India's monsoon rains
to linger, and on it goes... It's hard
to examine those
connections in the
real world, but it's
much easier
to see how things play out in a climate model.
If the
connections shown in Kosaka and Xie are duplicated in these «tweaked» model runs, the results can be considered
much more likely
to actually replicate the
real world.