Cybele could well be correct, in that this is a reference to the Jonestown mass suicide, and that he is suggesting that at the last minute he betrayed his faith (appropriately!) Of course, Flavor Aid is the correct reference.

There is a kinder alternative. The original meme was spread by Ken Keysey and the Merry Pranksters: to drink the (LSD laced) kool aid was to embrace the kaleidoscopic drug culture of the time. I think there is much merit in comparing Keyseys philosophy of intersubjectivity and Web2.0, and so it could be that pouring out the kool aid is a statement that a ‘common sense shared meaning of social and cultural life’ is ultimately weaker and less satisfying than historical perspectives based upon careful ratiocination.

Actual meaning is left as an exercise to the reader.

Cybele could well be correct, in that this is a reference to the Jonestown mass suicide, and that he is suggesting that at the last minute he betrayed his faith (appropriately!) Of course, Flavor Aid is the correct reference.

There is a kinder alternative. The original meme was spread by Ken Keysey and the Merry Pranksters: to drink the (LSD laced) kool aid was to embrace the kaleidoscopic drug culture of the time. I think there is much merit in comparing Keyseys philosophy of intersubjectivity and Web2.0, and so it could be that pouring out the kool aid is a statement that a ‘common sense shared meaning of social and cultural life’ is ultimately weaker and less satisfying than historical perspectives based upon careful ratiocination.

Actual meaning is left as an exercise to the reader.

What are you going to do when news outlets no longer hire people but simply link to free sites like consumers are doing now? What prevents a news outlet from linking to you from their popular portal and collecting ad revenue while you flounder? It’s all well and good in the name of freedom and free speech and free expression, but let’s see how well that feeds you. Something very tragic is happening and people are too busy defending themselves to see it.

If suddenly all food was free and people could go into free resturants or pay resturants and get the same quality food and service, how long do you think pay resturants would be around? How long do you think it would take before people who get paid to make food would not be able to get paid for it? All because someone wants to express themselves and prove to the world for free they can cook just as good as a pro and gain attention by giving it away.

Think long and hard about this, because it’s happening. The internet is to media what globalization is to labor. When labor is a commodity, the market value of labor goes down. (There’s always a cheaper monkey to hire). There is no point at which it goes back up, to go up you need to find another market as a laborer in which to compete, but we are talking about the global market, and beyond that there is none.

What are you going to do when news outlets no longer hire people but simply link to free sites like consumers are doing now? What prevents a news outlet from linking to you from their popular portal and collecting ad revenue while you flounder? It’s all well and good in the name of freedom and free speech and free expression, but let’s see how well that feeds you. Something very tragic is happening and people are too busy defending themselves to see it.

If suddenly all food was free and people could go into free resturants or pay resturants and get the same quality food and service, how long do you think pay resturants would be around? How long do you think it would take before people who get paid to make food would not be able to get paid for it? All because someone wants to express themselves and prove to the world for free they can cook just as good as a pro and gain attention by giving it away.

Think long and hard about this, because it’s happening. The internet is to media what globalization is to labor. When labor is a commodity, the market value of labor goes down. (There’s always a cheaper monkey to hire). There is no point at which it goes back up, to go up you need to find another market as a laborer in which to compete, but we are talking about the global market, and beyond that there is none.