Ad 20th century:
"Creativity is consumed but the consumer is not a creator. Culture is top-down were the vocal chords of the ordinary people have been lost. Never before in the history of human culture had its production become as concentrated, never before as professionalized, never before had the creativity of ordinary people as effectively been replaced and displaced ... the 20th century was this unique century of read-only culture against the background since the beginning of time of read-write creativity."
2009/05/15 - 11:17 AM
