Comments on: Against the cult of the amateur https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/against-the-cult-of-the-amateur/ Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:26:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.17 By: Ordinary Joe https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/against-the-cult-of-the-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-67105 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:26:36 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/against-the-cult-of-the-amateur/2007/04/25#comment-67105 Oooh what’s that stink? It’s the smell of fear. Another conservative, luddite elitist up on the soapbox staining his trousers at the tide of progress. And the irony to stumble across these words on a backwater blog. Spitting on the very platform that the technologists and progressives gave you, how rude!

There is no “utopia”. There is reality. Unfortunately reality is crass and lowbrow, the world of the middle class American teenager, the bored, the retired, the unemployed, and, God forbid, the poor and disaffected.

Do you see anybody forcing Mr Keen to walk the streets of the digital ghetto? No, he deigns to descend amongst us, roughing it for a bit of attention because his own “intellectual” buddies have tired of him no doubt.

If you don’t like social vertigo then get down from your ivory tower.

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