The facility of communication

I keep thinking of excellent blog ideas, but because I do not write them down immediatly I clearly forget what the ideas were. So this idea, which I thought of not 2 minutes ago whilst reading another blog, I will record promptly.

As the title would suggest, this entry is about communication. Namely how easy technology of the past decade has made it. I don't know how many of us I can speak for when I say that I certainly take for granted that I can pretty much talk to whomever I want whenever I want. But just now I noticed that the dynamic internet has taken "whomever" to a whole new level.
Earlier this year I was reading Freakonomics and I was just amazed by how smart the writer is and how he was able to make connections between phonomena that I would never even think of connecting. I won't go as far as to say that I idolized Levitt, but I placed him in the category of incredibly smart people who do not easily converse with the general public simply because they are in such high demand, and have so much of their own business to sort through, that they can not sit down for afternoon tea with everyone willing. But everyone willing can leave him a comment on his blog. As i was reading the blog entries and the comments it struck me how the people responding ARE the general public. They have the freedom to write whatever they please in response to Levitt's entries, and by no means shy away from accusing him of being "a moron, a traitor, or both". Everyone who wants to can give his/her two cents about the blog. Everyone can tell Levitt that he is an idiot, even though the book he wrote was brilliant. Surprisingly though despite the possibility of anyone commenting on the blog, seemingly only people who legitimatly know what they are talking about (i.e. the smart intellectual educated segment of the general public) decide to leave comments. This outcome can mean two things. One- Only the aforementioned sort of people read New York Times online (where the blog is currently located), an even smaller percentage of those are interested in the blog, and an even smaller percentage of those actually understand what Levitt is saying enough to argue or concur with his thoughts. Two- Not only smart people read the New York Times online and the Freakonomics blog, but the ones who do are not only awestruck by both the posts and the poster, but also are too shy and do not have anything worthwhile to say in response. I belong to the second group of people.

Now to resort back to the constantly (and annoyingly) repeating motif of forgetting the words that I was going to write, a little while ago I had an excellent closing statement for this entry, but seeing as I got distracted, I completely and tracelessly forget what I was going say.