EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING!

I was reading a review in the newyorker about the new michel gondry film and a very new media’s comment came up: “This user-generated content (in regards to youtube-esque videos), as it is called, marks either a long-overdue democratization of the arts or, if you prefer, a mass proliferation of the mediocre.”  well i am happy to see that reviews of movies are now an appropriate environment to spout facts of media.  is it becoming so obvious to people? is it only now becoming obvious? do we need super meta-movies to bring us to that level of obvious?  i thought this was interesting because i was reading more mcluhan and he brought up an interesting point about technology.

“…or any other form of specialist speed-up of exchange and information, will serve to fragment a tribal structure.  Similarly, a very much greater speed-up, such as occurs with electricity, may serve to restore a tribal pattern of intense involvement such as took place with the introduction of radio in Europe, and is now tending to happen as a result of TV in America.  Specialist technologies detribalize.  The nonspecialist electric technology detribalizes”

I think this comment answers the  preceding quote nicely by saying that the democratization of the arts is the proliferation of the mediocre.  we are striving for that unified consciousness.  everyone is trying to get on the level with everyone, thinking that they are unique.  they are just fueling the fire of themselves and everyone.  and ain’t it obvious that the computer is the end all be all of the “nonspecialist electric technology”.  the problem with the tribe of today, as i was telling jeff zeiders only moments ago, is that the tribe includes us all.  back in the day the tribes were separated by continents, rivers, thousands of miles, mountains, basically anything.  those tribes could destroy themselves and be reborn and exist as autonomous entities.  now the tribe is everything we all are trying to exist on a common thread but we have no thread.  we have the ability for communication, we have different beliefs, social practices, social evolutionary timelines, different everythings, when we go down we all goin down, in a big big way.  doesnt that sound fun yum yum.  but we are still trying to make those small tribes anyway i mean how cool is it to be in an art collective these days. wham city, rhicineropolis, paper rad, silent barn, etc etc.  glorified fraternities that get legitimized by the whitney and suddenly they think they somebody.  all im saying is lets sit in our room, lights off, and try to exist without any type of medium, hot or cold, for just a second.  im doing all of that but i just got a chinese drone machine so i let that play a little, its so chilly.

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