Connectivism, the dark side

The dark side of connectivism:

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents...
[S]ome day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age..."

Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu

Nicely done, professor Webb.

In a sense, this is a reflection of what lies beneath much of the antidemocratic resistance to the Web.