How to penetrate that jigsaw jungle, that's the question. It takes a discriminating mind, a mind that is already stocked with knowledge and trained in critical discernment, to distinguish . . . It is just this sense of discrimination that the humanities have traditionally cultivated and that they must now cultivate even more strenuously if the electronic revolution is to do more good than bad. That's the danger of the Internet. Himmelfarb worries that the electronic revolution could be hijacked by the intellectual revolution that immediately preceded it, which she labels postmodernism.
Nothing is fixed, nothing is permanent, nothing is transcendent.
Everything is in a state of total relativity and perennial flux. In order to make the most of the former, we must be on guard against the latter. After all, the world is awash already in nihilism and indifferentism. We don't need any more of these toxins. With Himmelfarb's admonition in mind, however, we can turn the Internet to the service of Truth and watch the spinners of cynicism and deceit snare themselves in the worldwide web.