All worker bees have tools to work: wings and senses, legs and language, and thus the ability to create. Creating wax or nectar or honey or propolis is an absolute miracle on an individual level: that one bee is capable of so much... but on a broader scale, the creation of these products is normal, routine. Millions of bees the world over can do the same thing. So there.
Sam opined tonight that the internet and the 21st Century has really changed art. We can write, take digital photos, think and create, and subsequently we can post our work on this incredible international medium, and potentially diffuse our work to a wide audience. Unfortunately, "it's all been done before."
Perhaps this sentiment has been felt since the very first attempt at originality, because the pursuit itself is afraid of being wrong. What if someone has done this already? If so, it will mean nothing.
But it's true that with blogs and YouTube and all the user-content platforms of today, there is a mammoth of content JUST LIKE THIS BLOG, and it's growing all the time.
So where can it all lead? No one is reading my blog (except you Will) just like no one is reading anyone's blog. Except that some blogs have millions of views. Somehow, there is movement in this world, some sort of flow. YouTube or TubetheVote.com are trying to find interesting ways to organize user-content into some digestible serving. There are so many carpenters, building on this internet frontier, Sam believes it would be interesting to be involved with organizing these carpenters into some structure, akin to social and political long-term planning.
Where can we go with all this? I could have blogged about the ridiculous McCain/Palin campaign, but I'm sure that plenty of people already have.
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