Self Explanatory

[annajaneclare]

A tectonic shift is taking place in our culture, namely the transition from a print/broadcast era in which information, opinion and entertainment is transmitted down a pyramidal social structure, to a pro forma egalitarian web culture in which there is no longer the mediation of a class of editors and opinion-formers, but instead everyone swims

Comments

[greyduck]

Sweet merciful crap. It's a sort of journalistic pseudo-intellectual Buzzword Bingo up in there, isn't it?

[annajaneclare]

It's amazing. That first quoted paragraph is extraordinary in itself - metaphor soup has never looked so primordial.

[greyduck]

And by "paragraph" you mean "single convoluted, idiotic, run-on sentence"? *wry grin*

[annajaneclare]

Yes. That too. Yikes.

[apiphile]

Oh Will what the jibbly fuck are you talking about.

[annajaneclare]

No idea, although I have to give him some kind of perverse kudos for being the first person to use the word 'interregnum' without describing the period from 1649 to 1660.

[penguineggs]

Oh, dear, someone get onto his dealer and tell him whatever he's cutting it with, can they please change it.

[annajaneclare]

I thought he'd been clean for some time, actually. Replaced heroin and coke with one hell of a Rogets' habit.

[hano]

I preferred him when he was high. At least that way there was a chance he'd OD on live TV or something.

[offensive_mango]

What the copulation?!

[offensive_mango]

How did I know that was going to be Will Fvcking Self before I clicked the link?