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I show three ways in which it is changing the commons, not the private networks; you respond with a string of banalities that have nothing to do with the commons, or my point.
People such as Al Gore who aim to please all of us, or as many as possible, traffic mostly in ecumenical banalities about the virtue and values of Godliness: Gore talks nonsensically about parents who "struggle to pass on the right values" to their children.
Some of his recent spiritual documentaries have degenerated into New Age banalities.
It was "a personal, bare-knuckled contest, fought and lost on the banalities of local politics."
Alice Truax calls it "an excellent novel about enduring the banalities of ordinary life" ( The New Yorker ). Suzanne Berne in the New York Times Book Review agrees: "one of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place."