Critical thunking
The Doc Searls Weblog : Friday, November 3, 2006
Back in the earliest Seventies, WBAI in New York ran a radio play set on a surreal planet where everybody spoke in gambling language. "I'll lay five on the chance that Jane isn't coming through with the Fleebus deal." "Let's short this. We're not getting anywhere." Stuff like that. I don't remember the dialog, just how it showed how it's possible to get totally caught up in one way of thinking and talking about things.
In some ways Cluetrain was a rant against the way too many of us thought and talked about the Internet at the height of the dot-com madness — all that stuff about portals and malls and stickiness and eyeballs. A lot of that thinking, that language, was driven by a tsunami of venture money.
In some ways Cluetrain was a rant against the way too many of us thought and talked about the Internet at the height of the dot-com madness — all that stuff about portals and malls and stickiness and eyeballs. A lot of that thinking, that language, was driven by a tsunami of venture money.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. What is the eternal mantra-like repetition ad far past nauseam of "markets are conversations" but the meristocrats' getting caught up in "one way of thinking and talking?" No fundamentalist - of any stripe, venture or triumphalist - likes thinking critically.
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