She makes an interesting point … and then there’s the huge majority of people around the world who have neither the luxury of access to the Internet on a regular basis, or in many of the other cases not enough time to use it as a reflective, expressive and interactive experience with others.
Her context was the ongoing descriptions of the struggles between mainstream media and blogging regarding legitimacy.
Technology is the same thing to our generation as peace symbols and flowers were to the Baby Boomers. It defines who we are and how we see the world. It’s our way of changing our environment. Whereas they sat around with flowers in their hair or put flowers in guns or flashed the peace sign at one another (man), our weapon is far, far more deadly… we may be pacifists, anti-violence, anti-war, but, as they say, words have more power than atom bombs.
I’m convinced that we will go further than they did. The Baby Boomers’ only objective was to end the Vietnam War. We want to end the current war AND change the world, make it play by *our* rules for a change… I’m convinced we’ll do it because we are creating our own world… and we don’t need their permission to do it.
I am constantly amazed by the things that bloggers accomplish and I don’t think there’s anyone who blogs (whether writing, commenting or just reading) that is not overwhelmed at times by what we can achieve. From taking Sinclair to its knees to raising all that money for my sister’s charity… it’s mind-blowing. Completely mind-blowing… and when someone suggests it’s just another ‘internet fad’ I think: ‘You are not living in the real world, mate.’
I’m 100% positive that this is the real world.
Then again… I’ve just written a proposal for a programme suggesting that the Internet is Heaven… so I may be guilty of being a bit of a CyberUtopian, but still, you’ve got to admit that blogging has changed your life. Am I right?
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