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Maybe it's viral after all
Just got this from a gentleman who works for this very interesting new publisher in the Phillipines:
Since my milieu is the Third World where revolutions are as common as dictators, I have an instinctive feel for a revolutionary idea whenever I see one. In view of the demise of radicalism of the previous era, your manifesto may very well contain the brilliant germs of a new worldview for the rest of us struggling to find another one.
Tom writes good shit.
Tom Matrullo posted this nugget to the Cluetrain list on Topica:
The giant enabling lie of the mass media is that really bad shit has value. All kinds of things have value for segments of the population, but very few things actually get on the playlist, as a glance at broadcast, cable, am/fm radio, newspapers and advertisements will confirm.
Good shit gets suppressed because bad shit succeeds in coasting on the lie that it is what we all want.
With the net, value can, one might hope, be more granular. One does not need some mega-enterprise that wouldn't know good shit if it fell from God himself to decide it, produce it, or transmit it.
I'll pay for good shit. The hope is, we all do not have to continually pay,
through our wallets, souls and posteriors, for bad shit.
Couldn't have shat it better myself.
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