Andrew Keen

OK, so I'm not as mad anymore as I was when I first saw this guy on the Colbert Report:





I just watched it now and so I'm all pissed off again (Viacom has freely provided me with the ability to embed this wherever I like, by the way, and they're paying Stephen Colbert and somehow making money, so shut the fuck up Andrew Keen, have you not HEARD of Internet advertising?) Also every time AK says "I think you're proving my point", SC is not, in fact, doing that at all -- nobody was convinced there were WMD in Iraq because of anonymous bloggers secretly in the employ of foreign powers, you arrogant fuck, it was Colin Powell on CNN, but whatever.

The point is, I'm not mad (I just loathe you, Andrew Keen). I just think it is ridiculous to state that culture is coming to an end because people can't make money off art because of the Internet. There have been musicians for thousands of years, and only a way to record and play back their music for the past hundred and forty -- I don't think the collapse of Tower Records really means the end of art as we know it. So art will be free on the Internet. People will still make money. The fact that anyone can publish does not mean that anyone is paying attention. Nobody is reading this here blog, for example, I am just another ignorant amateur yelling into the wind, and you don't have to read it any more than you have to pick up every pamphlet and 'zine printed in your local record shop. (Oh I forgot, no more record shops. Sorry.) Anyway, get over it.

Also, never, ever, ever answer the question "Is it art?" with the return question "Does it make money?" God, you're a douchebag.