Generation Bubble

Two Cheers for Technocracy: Social Media and Information Liberation

The possibility that there might be a difference between viewing a Rubens on the 2- by 3-inch iPhone screen and seeing it in person or in a book is not even worth mentioning. We have more culture in our pockets than E. D. Hirsch, Allan Bloom or Matthew Arnold ever imagined. We can do something that Matthew Arnold and Allen Bloom could not. When we turn on our iPhone to take part in culture and find that we do not like what we see, we can refashion and remix that cultural product into something that we do like. If that fails, we can simply power down the device and return culture to our pockets.