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Re: Thursday, April 19, 2007
The whole situation is incredibly, unbearably tragic, and I agree with your statement above: "Like it or not, the Net is here. We live in a Giant Zero world, where all of us are zero distance from the rest of us, or close enough. TV networks, newspapers, magazines and other established media are the only sources of authority, wisdom and good information. The most abundant sources for all those things are each other. This isn't just about disintermediation, intermediation or even "the media". It's about no longer depending on The Media alone. Naturally, they still have roles to play. They are just no longer the only ones playing those roles." I'm also glad to hear you are part of NPR, too. I was reading blogs this morning a bit, and came across this out of LA -- http://martinirepublic.com/item/category/arts It's curious how words can look, in and out of context, or time frame. Funny how culture focuses or ignores things, depending. What is so sad to me, beyond this terrible, terrible tragedy, is that no one seemed to "intervene" when it was obviously necessary. He is described as showing "flat affect" and depression. These things should have been obvious to trained clinicians. Faculty, concerned as they appear to have been as early as 2005, surely needed to serve as mentors to a troubled student in this case. Kids in that age bracket do live in a Giant Zero world, as they have grown up with all this technology since birth. Do I ever have a paper for you to take back east, Doc. I'm serious. The question is, who has studied the Humanities in the last two decades? http://www.santabarbaranewsroom.com/content/view/160/1/ Who will teach them in future?
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