sjefThu, Apr 3, 2008 Great response, cheers. As I indicated at the end of that post a large part of the point of it was that people would disagree. Do take the time at some stage to go through the comments, a number of interesting points are raised there. (Several of which are indeed also touched on in your answer).
"There is a lot of ‘rad doodles and poems’ that are pretty pointless, and the internet has helped accelerate the dissemination (and appreciation) of them."
I'm glad you picked up on this point, I intend to do a post / related book review on it sometime soon. Living now in the 'information' age, the meaning of the word information has changed, and it's value demeaned in ways that play an important part in how people deal with it.
Add near instant communication to the mix and you a have large number of people devoting a large amount of time to swapping what essentially amounts to nothing. Part of my gripe with 'normal' social networks, that I think you also mentioned in another post.
Looking forward to your post on the post-war era, I can't believe my statements regarding that weren't argued against more, as they were pretty blunt/uninformed/generalised/rough/etc.
Great response, cheers. As I indicated at the end of that post a large part of the point of it was that people would disagree. Do take the time at some stage to go through the comments, a number of interesting points are raised there. (Several of which are indeed also touched on in your answer).
I'm glad you picked up on this point, I intend to do a post / related book review on it sometime soon. Living now in the 'information' age, the meaning of the word information has changed, and it's value demeaned in ways that play an important part in how people deal with it.
Add near instant communication to the mix and you a have large number of people devoting a large amount of time to swapping what essentially amounts to nothing. Part of my gripe with 'normal' social networks, that I think you also mentioned in another post.
Looking forward to your post on the post-war era, I can't believe my statements regarding that weren't argued against more, as they were pretty blunt/uninformed/generalised/rough/etc.