Seven Generational Ruminations

The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture author: Andrew Keen asin: 0385520808

Charles Cooper is offering a review and/or perspective on a recent book, The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture. As one of the amateurs he's talking about this makes for some interesting reading. The book in question is by Andrew Keen who Mr. Cooper describes as a "gloomy elitist" and with this book is trying to "rattle the cage" of the "geekerati" of Silicon Valley.

Police blotter: Web at heart of ecoterror lawsuit is an interesting view into environmental activism that probably went too far. It concerns a group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, specifically the Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty USA organization based in the U.S.A.

Which world is the real one? Philosophical questions aside the common answer is that the world our bodies inhabit is the real world. It is our bodies that must be fed, housed, will get cold so therefore have to be clothed, has sexual drives, and so on. It is hard to ignore the reality which contains our bodies.

It's election season and we have silly politicians pulling silly stunts to try to get elected. I don't watch television so I don't experience this first hand, but I hear the TV is full of the typical ugly political campaign advertising. That's partly why I don't watch TV. In any case in addition to the TV advertising YouTube has drawn a number of political and corporate videos. And, the presence of these videos are causing some to question whether YouTube is being ruined. But I think it's an example of the question: Who owns a community?