Memo to the hyperintelligence. Your New York City portalist hard at work here at the Jazz at Lincoln Center theater at the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle in the meat world to sit in on a few sessions at the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum.
The jargon is so thick I need a reality machete just to figure out what these people are talking about. Sadly, it’s usually banal. There’s more insight in an average fortune cookie. Lots of expensive (but casual!) shoes and hair gel in the house, though. So this is where all the Silicon Alley people have gone.
From the Machine is (Changing) Us, and the Dangerous Power of Sharing (Power) sessions. “In the past like paired with like.” “Power must surrender power or be overwhelmed by it.” “Group throw-weight.” “What happens when you have ad-hocracies battling it out with hierarchies.” “Anarcho-syndicalism” (Moderator: “Could you spell that please?”).
Looks like the panel on the 2008 youth vote was equally limp. The deceptive and usually self-congratulatory claims about the 2008 youth turnout apparently were repeated (it was just two percent larger than 2004 and almost the same as in 1992 — although an impressive fraction voted for Obama). The broadband access one may have been good.
This is the kind of thing that happens when consultants desperately try to justify their existence by saying meaningless things in a complicated way in the hope that someone will pay them to explain themselves. I’ll let you know if anyone says anything worth your time.
bostonshepherd says
All jargon, no content.
bostonshepherd says
and jargon free May 14-16, 2010