The Organ Grinder’s Monkey

Back in September, Wil Wheaton’s Sept. 12th Geek in Review column at the Suicide Girls website did a good job of describing the effect of the meteor of the Conversation Economy on the fragile Jurassic habitat of Business As Usual:

There is a communications revolution happening right now. It crosses generations, and it scares the absolute shit out of a lot of people who benefit from ignorance and the control of information…Communication empowers people, and an empowered people are very, very scary to the powerful upper class who hope that we’ll just go away, right after we buy a lot of crap from them that we don’t need. And holy shit are they scared right now. The revolution may not be televised, but it’s being blogged, YouTubed, MySpaced, Facebooked, Dugg and Netscaped.

I would have blogged about it then, but I didn’t have the blog up and running yet (you’ll probably be seeing a lot of this in the near future - I have a whole folder of “to blog” links I’ve been squirreling away over the past few months). But the passage of a few months has done absolutely nothing to dull the fatal sharpness and ninja-like accuracy of his point.

Mature Content Alert: Although Wil’s column is safe for work, the Suicide Girls is a punk/goth/alt softcore “pin-up” site, and as such there will likely be adult advertising, topics, verbiage, etc., on the same page as his column. Might want to save this one for when you get home.

Tags: Business, Changing the World, Conversation Economy, Social Media, Society and Culture //