Doug Belshaw summarizes Ed Zitron's recent article (covered here), does me the favour of introducing me to Guy Debord (the Society of the Spectacle) and gets to what's wrong with Zitron: "I think that writers such as Zitron have a duty to spell out the kind of utopia that he thinks we should be striving for. As with other techno-critics, it's all very well pointing out how terrible things and people are, but if this is what you are doing, you need to be explicit about your position. What do you stand for?" In our media space, however, criticizing the system is what gets the clicks.
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