Hey, indeedy, as Atrios would say. Stirling nails it again.
The power of the network, and of all of us within that network, is only beginning.
The Revolution of the Sphere | TPMCafe
The threat that the blogsphere makes is that it is the small visible top of a great iceberg – an iceberg populated by a different kind of person, one whose faith is not in Numbers, or even numbers, but in the network itself, and the ability of the network to adapt, create nodes of activity, forge connections of economic, political and intimate dimensions and to run the world.
This is the important revolution – from a system where a particular body of texts is deconstructed into maxims which are then repeated endlessly, and from the body of people exposed to them, the ones who are best indoctrinated are given the task of sledge hammering the world into the box that the book as they read it creates – to a system where a web is woven around the world – and not merely the changing of committee chairmen in the House of Representatives – that is in the offing. This was the important lesson of the yearly Kos – the people on the internet are now the people of the internet, and they are capable, far more capable, than the system which is now imposed on the nation. As the tide turns against Bush and his isms, it will be the growing belief that the internet can not only run our software, but be the basis for running our body politic, which is the real, and deeper revolution of the sphere.
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