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Fred R. Harris, Senator Who Ran for President, Dies at 94
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After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward
turn toward “new populism” in a failed 1976 shot at the presidency.
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RELATED CONTENT ; ...And coincidentally, all of a sudden there are a hundred million people using that +1 button, reading friends’ updates, chatting and sharing seamlessly, and starting to question what it is that Facebook has that Google doesn’t.
ReplyDelete“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.”
(This was originally the title of this post, but I decided to have a world-class pun instead.)
But Google didn’t do all that. Google+ was born and not molded, naked and altricial and all at once instead of incrementally and subtly and responsively, into a world that hadn’t asked for it, and didn’t really need it. What are the wages of Google’s tactless warfare?
Sun Tzu actually does say “To defeat your enemy, you must become your enemy.” But he meant it in terms of understanding. Google has actually become their own enemy, both in how they have thwarted their own development and how they have donned the tainted garb of monopoly. These clothes were made for Facebook to wear in social, but Google has convinced the world that they too are a good fit.