Perhaps surprisingly, he does not tweet (“I really cannot imagine
what I would want to say or hear on Twitter”). How does he feel about
social media as a political tool, people having their two-penn’orth over
Thatcher’s funeral on Facebook, then moving on when they’ve let off
steam?
“In one sense I think that humans are evolving very quickly to be
amazingly good at multitasking,” he says. “The downside is that people
think that merely being involved in a conversation is the same as doing
something about it. That is an illusion and it’s an illusion that
governments are very happy to foster. They’re rubbing their hands –
everyone thinks they’re ‘engaged’ and it doesn’t make any bloody
difference. You have been seen to be commenting but you have not done
anything. In a way it is better to let the steam build up.”
The ever fascinating Brian Eno interviewed by the New Statesman.
The best/worst LGBT example of what Eno's talking about is probably allout.org - an endless series of online petitions, which calls itself "a movement".
A movement of the index finger?
Friday, 17 May 2013
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