on the surface this looks as scary as it does inevitable. but when you consider that everquest now lists among the 'real world's richest countries - and see how active online communities such as those found in lambdaMOO have become in governing their own virtual affairs - it is something that has to be considered as a real contender for proactive community capacity building. if people are more apt to speak their mind in a virtual environment (which definitely seems to be the trend), why not embrace that into the governing systems of 'real life'? the fact that it is big media businesses that are taking the lead on this for their own dismal interests should not detract from the core ideas of blurring borders between real and virtual lives and what it takes to make a society responsible for its own workings.
michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 11:02 PM Subject: <ambit> teen prezidentz fix yer teeth... > Today the ultimate cool is the denial and refutation of all authority > and authenticity as a means to a new virtual authenticity. You can be > a teenager forever. Giving full life to this youth-anchored dream of > intellectual nihilism is the new show from cable channel HBO called > "Candidate 2012." The show promises to make an anonymous person, who > must be between the ages of 24 and 29, a legitimate candidate for the > President of the United States in the year 2012. The joke that "if > Bush Jr. can become President, anyone can" is being taken seriously > by a corporate machine that knows what the public wants and intends > to deliver us our first "Real World" MTV rock star President. Expect > a DJ to make it to the final selection round. > > from event scene 108: paradise pirates on c-theory dotnet... > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland > post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and write "info ambit" in the message body > ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
