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Friedman is a hack:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/contest-...

TL;DR - Friedman's been doing minor variations on this "the world is increasingly hyperconnected" bullshit for years and years. It's bad writing and it means nothing.

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Several years ago I had the idea of using Markov chain algorithms to auto-generate Thomas Friedman articles. I was going to build a site around it called mechanicalfriedman.com. I just discovered someone else beat me to it:

http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/

There goes my billion dollar exit...

Matt Taibbi practically makes a living writing takedowns of Thomas Friedman's Op/Ed pieces and books. Here's a selection:

http://nypress.com/flathead/ http://nypress.com/flat-n-all-that/

He likes calling bullshit on other writers, and it just so happens Friedman is an endless font of bullshit.

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