Eggheads say that the bureaucratic style eats all the others. It’s the great linguistic PacMan that thrives off the Realistic, the Courtly, and the Republican dots, munching them like vitamins. In other words, we’re all eventually bound and gagged by red tape. So the real danger is not chaotic diversity, but mind-numbing, power-hungry singularity. Goose-stepping unity is our real fear, not grass-roots chaos.
But information, like life, always finds a way. It seeps, leaks, and runs. It’s messy and invigorating.
I always thought digg got it. But it, too, has now jumped the shark. Their recent interview reveals that not only do they think they single-handedly control the messy users, but they have so beneficently gifted us with our own empowerment.
Thanks, but no thanks, gentlemen. We can figure it out quite nicely.