Andrew Keen on "The Colbert Report": Andrew Keen, author of the book "The Cult of The Amateur, guest on the show. Andrew Keen insists that bloggers are stealing contents from artists. -Keen: That's stealing our culture.
Colbert: But it's still culture. The Nazis stole culture, but it was still culture.
Keen: It's worse than that... Even the Nazis didn't put artists out of work.
Click here to read the Wall Street Journal's Jamin Brophy interview with Andrew Keen and what is Andrew Keen's take on Web 2.0. "Web 2.0 transforms us into monkeys" as he puts it.
Click here for the post at Boing Boing.
A little message for Mr. Keen,
ReplyDeleteThe Nazis didn't put artist out of work only in the most cruel and inhuman notion of that concept. However they certainly did keep them from there art, by putting them in work camps. If that is the literal interpretation that you where going for then please, promptly go to hell. However if you where simply mistaken and thought that the Nazis didn't care what people put in there art then I would call you an ass. Either way shame on you for using that dark area in human history to further your own goals.
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/arts/artDegen.htm
anonymous: I guess Mr Keen didn't do enough of homework :)
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