YouTube – The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity
Sunday, October 25th, 2009

About 10 minutes of it is a minor update (rehash) of An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, but the rest is new. The gathering may have been the highest concentration of amazingly creative and concerned global citizens I have ever been around. Hallway conversations were different than your typical conversations. Instead of lots of people saying, [...]

Footnote 93
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

As previously discussed, Mastermind groups are nodal points for group mind consciousness. The multimind is a breakdown of the structures and protocols of one’s personal consciousness. While we’re not declaring this as a conclusion, we do feel that using the multimind model as a way to evaluate a group mind at least provides a starting [...]

Footnote 90
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Hoffer, Eric. (1963) The True Believer and Frank, Thomas. (2005) What’s the Matter with Kansas? bookend nicely the problematic nature of democracy.
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