Depends what sort of mediocrity he's talking about. I will rally to the defense of all sorts of videos that some people will think are mediocre. And I will look at some videos and hate them. I will look at some videos and despair of humanity, I will look at others and find hope. I will not find many videos that I really want to see, nor too many people saying the things I really want to hear.
And all the while I will know that at the very least there is already evolution, and my personal sense of the odds of this stuff causing a dramatic revolution are in no way reduced by what has been produced so far. The question is what sort of revolution. The revolution anybody may wish for, is probably not what will actually happen. Am I to think that all the 'creators of mediocrity' are wrong, or is it perhaps more a question of peoples expectations being wrong? Maybe humans always like to imagine there are more people our there with the same opinion as to how things should be, than there actually are. Maybe elements of the net will finally allow us to see how many of us there are, or arent, and thus better moderate expectations. The technology is there, if the humans arent there to make best use of it, well who is there to complain to? At least with old media you could write in to them and tell them their programming sucked, and easily imagine that there were thousands of great scripts etc out there, being held back by a silly gatekeeper. I generally think that when it comes to creativity, it needs to be nurtured from a young age rather than being stamped out in the majority because theyre needed to do non-creative jobs in the system. People can breath new life into their creative side later in life, but like with other things, kids can learn faster, better not to extinguish those flames in the first place. The net is a geat way to encourage people to create, and lets not go destroying the fun and joy of creativity in the same way school can for so many, by telling people theyre no good and giving them a 1 on the poopometer, eh. Id rather swim in vast oceans of mediocrity than be trapped in a small room with a half a jar of brilliance. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > but what IS surprising is when some of us, who are > > expecting a revolution from the social media sphere, rally to the > > defense of this mediocrity. > > who is doing this? > > jay > > > > > -- > Here I am.... > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > > Check out the latest project: http://politicalvideo.org > 500 hours of George Bush speeches > Search, download, use >
