DISQUS

Pieter Ardinois · 2 years ago

The book is clearly written by a person who wants to be a hero, in times where heroes are losing power due to passionate people sharing their ideas. I think that the culture of sharing is enriching and creating new opportunities. The actual sociological models can't be compared with traditional ones, as there wasn't a way to interact that fast and direct. Joining the amateur conversation is joining a conversation driven by passion, instead of a conversation driven by belief/disbelief or knowing and not knowing. You either share a passion or you don't.

Jake McKee · 2 years ago

Good point, Pieter. I'd even go further that it's not just belief/disbelief, but financial gain. The idea that, for example, professional journalists are influenced by nothing more than journalistic integrity is laughable. What stories run on the nightly news or the front page is highly influenced by personal politics and biases, what yields the highest attention( and thus financial) reward, and even business issues of how the news organization is being run.