Tag Archive: Montaigne

May 27 2012

Cicero Would Have Hated Facebook

I’m reading The Essays of Montaigne because, well, it’s there. In discussing friendship, ol’ Michel blockquotes Cicero: Those are only to be reputed friendships that are fortified and confirmed by judgment and length of time. Yeah, that’s totally not what happens now. If Facebook’s “friend” becomes the dominant definition of the word, we’re going to …

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