This would be better discussed on the .microsound mailing list, but suffice it to say that without the printing press we probably wouldn't have Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, not to mention the Age of Enlightenment and the American Revolution.
I don't believe in "democracy" per se, but surely access to the means of production also means access for geniuses no matter how many imbeciles may also have their say. The problem is lack of education, not excess of democracy in the means of cultural production. ~David On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Beddow <andrew.bed...@gmail.com> wrote: >> now with the democratization of djing, everyone knows how to dj >> supposedly.... the printing press was indeed an innovation, but the >> quality of literary output is surely down in a world where literacy is >> epidemic and books are published every day only to be thrown out the >> next, where writing has devolved into txting and blogging. just as it >> is with the written word, so too with electronic music in my book. >> > > oh my god, incredible analogy. sorry, have nothing to contribute to > this discussion, but amazing! text speak is the fault of the printing > press! > > andrew >
