October 3, 2004
Sometimes life seems to consist of keeping score on a variety of petty transactions. The assignment is to count how many times the White Shirts pass the ball. Be sure not to count the passes made by the Black Shirts. Oh well, I say to myself, so that's how to stay in the game. I resign myself to the task.
If you haven't already seen it take a look and count for yourself. Carefully record your score. Then--Is 12 right, teacher?--read the other post from Marginal Revolution.
Even in the few minutes it takes someone to type these words on a quietly dusky Austin October morning, things are changing at the pace of double-dodgeball. The old scorecards fade and fray. Boomer values dissipating, the cultural currency revalued, redesigned, harder to counterfeit. A suspiciously-hairy but evidently warm-hearted primate saunters into the parlor.
The best explanation I've heard for the swelling tsunami of memetic change is Roy Williams' energetic slide show [update: here], presented yesterday at the Founding Celebration for The Wizard Academy. Turned my head around a few times. All the truisms (instant communication demands transparency) suddenly make sense.
Thanks Roy, you sure put a finger on the pulse of Cultural Now and Next. Yup, everyone deserves some music. Keep us on our toes, ready to roll up the rug and waltz the next arrival around the living room.
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