Good to hear Euan blogging in his own words yesterday, concluding…
We can no longer rely on the certainties that appeared to underpin our world. Experts who knew all the answers, structures that remained unchanged for decades, society that neatly lined up the way it was meant to and individuals who knew their place and assumed the roles expected of them.
In the fragmentation of sense-making, as the comfort of mass media and culture dissolves into so many individual bloggy, often foggy, and other voices, it occurs to me that the clarity we each achieve is directly related to the quality of attention and energy that we each bring to the task, for ourselves. And any sense we make is a gift to everyone around us. Uniquely universal. Hmmm….
Nice to come and find this sentiment. Some people call the blogosphere an echo chamber. (The irony is apparent when they’re quoted for attribution, eh?)
I prefer to think of it as a refractory. The Bose wave of bullshit-detectors. And defectors.