December 06, 2004

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Like wheels within wheels, the web has links within links

    By Jack Grant

While doing some research at Wikipedia.org for some links to amplify on some possibly unfamiliar terms in a post below, I ran across the term moral panic. It is defined as "semi-spontaneous or media-generated mass movement based on the perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society."

What a fascinating phrase...

...and quite useful. It plays right into a post I'm still working on, the one that links together so many different and disparate themes. I hope I can get the damn thing finished soon, I have a novella chapter to write!

Posted by Jack Grant at 07:48 on 6 December 2004
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Keep writing Jack! ;-p

I'm very much looking forward to that post, as well as the novella chapter.

Would you like some assistance?! I'm a pretty mean typist?

Just askin'

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