Embarrassment, then an act of kindness, then the internet and human distribution.
I feel sorry for Andrew Keen that he’ll never understand or appreciate something like this. Well, almost sorry.
via Johnnie Moore
- Author: Adriana
- Published: Sep 19th, 2007
- Category: Autonomy, People, Social web
- Comments: 2
Justin
on Sep 19th, 2007
@ 15:16 pm:
I’m sure Mr Keen would use that very same clip to support his view, amateur’s screwing things up and then being bailed out by someone that actually knows what they are doing, that’s followed by everyone’s uncomfortableness born of not wanting to be an individual and express and individualist view of possibly, “You suck, get off” turns to following the sentiment born of the group. Safety in numbers etc.
Yes, community is great certainly, I love it and benefit from and contribute too but belonging is a warm and fuzzy that’s really nice to wrap yourself in a lot like a blanky, but sometimes blanky is in the wash and you find yourself totally lost. Worse is when you vom over blanky, you soon find yourself wrapped in vile stinking, rankness and full of not so warm feelings but unable to cast blanky aside.
Sorry, meandering metaphor, but you get the picture. Where Andrew Keen misses the point is that he’s forgotten that everything is relative, scaler, there are no absolutes. He doesn’t get that societal constructs such as government,hierarchies and the mass media are all scaled up examples of community, roles within that community. Etiquette and peer approval being replaced by laws and innate prejudices (bad choice or word but best I can manage).
Alice Bachini-Smith
on Sep 20th, 2007
@ 19:22 pm:
Very glad I got to see this. Thanks for posting.