Comments on: Lessig on Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur” http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/05/31/lessig-on-keens-the-cult-of-the-amateur/ information ethics : new media : privacy : values in design : 2.0 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:47:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Seth Finkelstein http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/05/31/lessig-on-keens-the-cult-of-the-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-64125 Seth Finkelstein Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:24:58 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/05/31/lessig-on-keens-the-cult-of-the-amateur/#comment-64125 My view of Andrew Keen is that's he's working the routine of being the mirror-image of the Web 2.0 hucksters. Whatever they assert, in overblown, exaggerated, florid terms, he simply asserts the reverse, in EQUALLY overblown, exaggerated, florid terms. Careful intellectual critiques don't get nearly as much attention as screaming "COMMIE!". So it's almost a case of real live classic _ad-hominem_ - the ideas are no less true for being said by an attention-baiter, but also what he's saying is not focused on good ideas, so much as accidentally being true because he's just saying the reverse of bad ideas. My view of Andrew Keen is that’s he’s working the routine of being the mirror-image of the Web 2.0 hucksters. Whatever they assert, in overblown, exaggerated, florid terms, he simply asserts the reverse, in EQUALLY overblown, exaggerated, florid terms. Careful intellectual critiques don’t get nearly as much attention as screaming “COMMIE!”.

So it’s almost a case of real live classic _ad-hominem_ – the ideas are no less true for being said by an attention-baiter, but also what he’s saying is not focused on good ideas, so much as accidentally being true because he’s just saying the reverse of bad ideas.

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