Don't trust... who?

John says, "Don't trust the servers."

To analyze the illogic of certain trends, I like to employ a trick I call the "reverse timeline." I ask myself, "What happens if the timeline goes the other way?" In this instance, you'd start with server-based online applications, and then suddenly a new technology—the desktop computer with a quad-core processor and huge hard drive—appears. Now, you do not need to do all your computing online. The timeline is reversed.

Why is it that pundits like this fellow above just insist on purveying an all or nothing perspective? Could it be ... the media? Could it be the fact that we as a society desperately want to see things in black or white? Could it be that 'journalism' panders to this bi-polar disorder?

This polarity is laughable. Individuals who report on it run the very great risk of becoming a casualty of their own rhetoric. "Since the majority of Dvorak's articles deal with absurd and contrived polar extremes he should be completely discounted."

Hmmmmm, that has a curious ring to it.