Comments on: The Anti-Authoritarian Age

By: Mike Linksvayer » Dangerous Optimism

Mike Linksvayer » Dangerous Optimism — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:16:02 +0000

[...] That depends on the subject of optimism. I think people tend to be dangerously optimisic about the outcomes of authoritarian processes, including both obvious societywide authoritarianism and conscious decisions made by individuals, but dangerously pessimistic about decentralized processes, including listening to external advice at the individual level. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » You against abominable people

Mike Linksvayer » You against abominable people — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:50:20 +0000

[...] Yes, it is the anti-authoritarian age. Time: But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. [...]

By: zeevveez

zeevveez — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:15:37 +0000

This authority problem will get worse in the near future
since Web 2.0 is about micro-contents that are torn from the
original article – so that the author is forgotten at
the end of the day.
It looks like you appreciate encyclopedias a little too much.
IMO they are old macro content monsters that have to be
shattered to atoms of knowledge and rearranged according to
users needs.
See more on
http://qtsaver.blogspot.com/2005/12/cat-b.html