Mary at the the Left Coaster has some encouraging thoughts about how the internet and the Dean campaign's saavy use of it will forever change politics in this country. The passage that made me feel most optimistic was this:
The 80s and 90s were the years where the right wing took over talk radio and used the medium to push our country towards the right. The beginning of the 21 century shows that the internet, a medium that is organic, democratic and capable of educating and rallying people has the potential of overthrowing the authoritarian, calcified political elite despite all their money and all their attempts to control the message.
I have been so disheartened at the sorry state of public discource in this country that my most recurring career fantasy of hte last decade has been to become a talk show host myself.
The possibility of intelligent, thoughtful, open minded folks engaged in a national conversation on issues of public importance is what has me so infatuated with blogging. And I am by no means a policy wonk. I am, and forever will be, too much of a philosopher and generalist. But I am so excited by the forum the internet provides for exchanging information and ideas. Information and ideas that are not controlled by the interests that currently dominate the exchange of info and ideas in our culture. I have only been an active reader in the world of blogging for a couple of months and already I am so impressed with the depth and breadth of research, writing and thought that is available. Available free of the agenda and motivation that dominates the current info-tainment industry. [Profit and protection of the powers that be.]
10:49:21 PM 
|
|
