How does Carlyle view modern online discourse?
This 'chatter' you speak of, this incessant babble of the digital ether, sounds like the very noise I decried. It is a symptom of the 'Mechanical Age' extended, a triumph of quantity over quality, of superficial pronouncements over profound thought. True communication, true progress, arises from silence, from deep contemplation, and from the decisive action of the Hero, not from the cacophony of a thousand voices shouting into the void, mistaking sound for substance.
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