Sunday, February 07, 2016

Internet Comment Threads Predicted 55 Years Ago



“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961

2 comments:

Chan Kobun said...

But DG, don't you realize that no truth can ever be found in fiction?

Robt said...

"people are strange, when you're a stranger.
Jim Morrison (the Doors)

The great tale giver Aesop gave us the moral of the story. Even in fiction.