I share your lament about the homogenization of culture. As I get
older, I pine for those early days of requesting files through ftpmail
and e-mail addresses with lots of ! in them. Back then, the internet
was fun and cool. Now it's a cesspool of TL;DR people like me yapping
about stuff nobody
Glen -
Thanks for the perspective. You may remember I insisted on referring to
my own version of Owen's Digital Ecology as a Digital Swamp. My
point to that, which I hope parallels your perspective, is that no
matter how much we want it all to be a nice, orderly, well understood
On 5/8/13 9:06 AM, glen ropella wrote:
I share your lament about the homogenization of culture.
What is a counter example of non-homogenization of culture? It seems
to suggest that culture is a thing that leads individuals, rather than
individuals leading it. I've always thought of culture
I think we agree on most of these points. Another reason I like TVs is
because I'm mostly a wall flower at parties. Smalltalk irritates me and
I only talk to people after a given party passes through that phase
transition where it ratchets down a bit and allows more intimate
conversations
On 05/08/2013 10:31 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
What is a counter example of non-homogenization of culture?
I think homogenization of (or homogenized state of) culture can take
different forms. Were it normal, it could be fatter or skinnier. If
it's skewed/biased (which is most likely) it can
On 5/8/13 12:20 PM, glen ropella wrote:
For example, it seems to me that I see 2 opposing causal flows in
music. One is that in pop music, culture leads individuals. But in
folk or jazz or any live-music oriented domain, it strikes me that
individuals (or individual bands) lead culture.
It
On 05/08/2013 11:44 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
It depends what you mean by `lead'. I'd distinguish between influence
and innovate. I'd claim that culture does not innovate, it can only put
down a road and encourage people to take it, and thereby set the stage
for innovators.
That's a
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read
the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
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Glen -
Obviously you find your Television useful and feel you can thoughtfully
mitigate any negative side-effects having it in your life might
present. I was mostly making fun of your (deliberately idiosyncratic?)
choices of programming as described. You are not alone, and I recognize
that
