I like to name a post something portentous, like that above. That being said, I can witter on like a crack-headed bird-brain for the rest of the post.
But I'd like to say about Gen-X, are we finished already? Is Nirvana the best we can do? Technology has turned the world upside down (or is it right-side up) since we graduated from college. Most of it sucks.
Don't take me for a Luddite, but Facebook? Porn for all for free? Even mapquest is redundant if you take the time to study a decent map. But Google, god of all and everything, has turned your ordinary barroom controversy into certitude.
But everything subservient to technology, even books? This is the Roman empire being sacked by the Visogoths. People with e-books swear they are the best, but will they last? Will they be treasured by generations to come? Will they gather dust as prestige items its owners never read anyway? Trophy cases for the urban upper=middle class? Civilization teetering on a bookcase, over the extra-large screen TV?
Egalitarianism sucks. There were reasons that newspaper and magazine pundits could weigh in on quite quite weighty subjects. They knew what they were talking about.
And no, any jack-off king in his basement reading blogs is not the same as George Will. And Will benefited from this arrangement, meaning that those in high office responded to his request for interviews were returned asap.
When I worked for the Trenton Times, state officials would get back to me whenever I told them to. This was not because of me, but because I represented 100,000 people, and they damn well better get back unless they wanted someone else to crucify them.
The power of the press, it was said, belongs to those who own one. Now that everyone has one, who'll grant power to the powerless?
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