Cacophony, Change and China
by Fred Fortin
In Andrew Keen’s new book “The Cult of the Amateur” he complains that the internet is transforming our culture into a cacophony of “infinite filibustering”, a noise of “hundred million bloggers all talking about themselves; a place where truth is “flattened”, where “ignorance meets egoism, meets bad taste, meets mob rule … — on steroids.” And more to the point, this “chaos of useless information” is not just pop culture entertainment, but a threat to civil public discourse, “encouraging plagiarism and intellectual property theft and stifling creativity.” (Read More)
