<> <> shag <> <>>Today's people's library makes all the handwringing over the death of <> print, the death of reading, and how kids these days are hopelessly <> demobilized by technology seem quaint. <> <> gulick <> <> Please. There may be myriad problems with such handwringing, and <> I'll confess to being guilty of reductive handwringing from time to <> time. <> Yes, the OWS'ers devotion to the People's Library (now chucked in a <> trash <> bin by the NYC fuzz, yes?) is inspiring, but hardly represents a <> significant <> counter-trend to the dominant tendency. (Do you really believe that <> the <> Occupations at present, whatever promises they carry, could effectuate <> such a widespread cultural revolution? Crazy.) Or, it only represents <> a <> counter-trend if the advocates of the "handwringing" perspective <> argued <> that ALL young-uns are addicted 24-7 to their gadgets, which they <> never did. <> <> I swear, shag, your game lately seems to be one of playing gotcha, and <> not <> very adeptly either.
Oh, I'd agree. There's not one person I work with who gives two shits about Occupy. Most of the more "progressive" folks I know don't even give one shit. The democrats only care if it can get them votes. The more conventional leftists I've worked with are totally confused.
I've mentioned before that the most "hippy" of my friends, a big Quaker, from whom I've learned a ton about consensus democracy in the past two years, thinks that the kids should start small businesses like he did, that will solve their problems! That's why I've referred to this, for the fourth time now, as 1776 all over again. It may lay the ground work for something much different, but right now, it is simply not big enough. I am hoping for more communization, please. Hopefully in front of the White House.
As for the handwringing, I should have taken the time to look up the book's title and author I was thinking of. Nicholas Carr's awful book, The Shallows, wherein he claims an inexorable trend that even an author such as himself cannot escape. The internet makes us stupid, and I know says Carr, it makes me stupid! That's basically his argument, since the research he marshalls doesn't hold up to scrutiny.