Here's Dave Winer: "Journalism, academia, government and the corporate world all hire from the same talent pool. They go to the same universities, get their news from the same sources. Corporate people take government jobs, then go back to the corporations. The people move fluidly in and out of each bucket." I think that's true, and it certainly accords with my own observation. The second part, though, is where the hammer drops: "So you get the same story, the reality they believe in, developed over centuries, that is radically different from the reality most other people experience.... They think the problem is that we don't see what they see, but I think it's the other way. They hold on to a normalcy that is gone. They can't see what they can't see." Over the years I've called this the 'nexus'. Winer's point is that people inside the nexus don't realize their inside the nexus, or that there's a different reality outside the nexus. Via Doc Searls, who (being inside the nexus) misses Winer's point completely.
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