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It is these people–the broadband-connected and YouTube-addicted ones who think nothing of blasting psychotic anonymous profanities at some blogger who had the gall to present an opinion they disagreed with–whom Lee Siegel rages, froths, and fulminates against in his slim little attack volume, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. And it is the fact that his book is motivated more by his irritation with today’s online addicts than any serious intellectual engagement with the effects of online culture on our society, that ultimately keeps it from being anywhere near the call to arms that Siegel seems to believe it to be.Against the Machine went on sale last week. You can read the full review at PopMatters.
