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Old Mar 8, 2009 , 01:18 PM   # 6 (permalink)
Default Re: Enslaved By Technology



Originally Posted by DaBishop View Post
If RA was writing and asking for balance, he could have mentioned the immense benefits of the internet. He could have dwelt a bit on the good uses of the internet. Like, sitting in my pajamas, I can research all about Osogbo, their development needs, and tailor a grant for a client in consultation and send him copies of all the required documents without going to Nigeria, the Grantor's office or the Grantee's premises...while I joke and interact with a certain Emj who is also internet friends with RA.

...Or that without buying the Guardian Newspaper, we can read RA almost as soon as he sends his final copy...

But no, RA was really writing an answer of sorts to a certain abuse...
Abusing the internet...
Abusing them back...
Rather than give the real answer expected...
Also abusing his position by using his column to abuse...
Thus committing the said abuse he complains of...

He wrote his
I wrote mine.
Spot on, DaBishop.

I felt that RA was talking tongue in cheek with this misnomer labelled an article!

The internet, like all forces, can be used for good and bad - just like MAN!

RA himself, by this particular article has abused it. I feel he has simply used this media to abuse people who called for him to repudiate insinuations of shenanigans on the Abuja land deal, but then I could be wrong and off tangent on my take on this, but a very loud and prolonged silence followed by an ill-disguised name-calling article penned to deride perceived detractors and cyber-hecklers does not put RA above the fray.

It simply confirms he is bothered about how he is perceived by some, no matter how minor they may appear to be numerically.

If he is, let him do the manly thing that a clear conscience dictates rather than come out with verbose articles reeking of bellicose intellectual braggadacios aimed at people who previously held him on a higher moral pedestal!

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