>OR Clay Shirky or Greg Kot and their breaking down of those
>idea of holding onto an out dated system that no longer has
>any real world value is all the indication needed about what I
>mean and who I'm talking about.

lies in our varying definitions of "outdated" and "real world value."

The root of our disagreement (as I see it) lies in the concept of the formation or perception of "value"... If you believe that a LOLcat is of equal cultural value to A Love Supreme, that's just an idea that I will probably never get on board with.

The problem I see with you and denny is that you emphasize the moral neutrality of "the glacier" without weighing the ideological impact of it.

Social and technological trends are pretty much unstoppable... It's futile crying about it and trying to force the toothpaste back into the tube.

But that doesn't mean that they are completely neutral value-wise. Some trends, some ideas ARE better than others.

So if the dominant idea is that an item of "content" is worth no more than the medium by which it is distributed... I am sorry but I think that is a BAD idea.

And me saying a bad idea is probably not going to stop the advance of that idea, but let me at least have it on record so that when the inevitable negative end result of that bad idea comes to fore, I'll know that I was not a cosigner on that bill.

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