QuoteSo the "broadcast yourself" thing is an excellent development, if it can change attitudes toward the realization that the life of an ordinary person is worth living;
But then again it's not innocent. Some people manipulate this desire of people to 'broadcast themselves' and make money and shape culture with that desire.
What you're saying about the everyman becoming more of a rolemodel is correct, and it's been happening for a while. It's the 'loser revenge', the knee-jerk from the high expectations we've been forced to deal with for lots of decades. Get in a great school, get a great job, get a great wife, make great kids, have a great house and all that.
So now the couch potato is fighting back for his right to be unsuccessful, and that's a healthy reaction. But.
The people that benefit from selling things to humans, will just find a different way to sell their things using the shifted paradigm. They will make a coorporation out of human expression, and they'll steer it subtly, perhaps not-so-subtly in the direction they want it to go. The 'nobody revolution' is a sham, because it's politically correct. You can do nothing and be nothing and share that with people in Big Brother, a videoblog, wherever just as long as you don't overstep any bounds. As long as you don't question authority, you don't have any radical views, you don't say anything you shouldn't say. If you do anything you shouldn't do, this process spits you out like the nothing you are. This revolution is televised, and it is controlled.
The great secret here is that they've let the dumb nothings make idols out of each other. Just as long as they remain oblivious to why they're nothings and how they could change that. It's like a little slave-colony where one of the slaves every week gets featured in the media of the colony, and all the other slaves look up to him or what to be him. It increases productivity and keeps everybody occupied. It's a difusion tactic while a few people who are not nothings are persuing their power plan.