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Originally Posted by Chaucer
WHAN that Aprille with his foolynges soote
The folk of Engelond hath perced to the roote
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In this classic opening to
The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer was of course alluding to TS Eliot's poem
The Waste Land. And Eliot himself was exploring how the internet of the 21st century would both enable and undermine discourse and democracy.