Maricopa Chamber Ethics Blog

Aug 23

is the web killing our culture

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Last modified: August 23, 2007

This is very insightful article. Is the net causing our culture to become a society without ethics? I think he makes a great point.

Andrew Keen accuses the Internet of killing culture
In an interview conducted by Frédérique Roussel, Andrew Keen, a British blogger and author of ‘The Cult of the Amateur’, denounces the absence of ethics on the Internet. “When I look a the Web, I mainly see cultural and ethical chaos. I note the insidious theft of intellectual property, plagiarism, hardcore pornography, unrelenting spams and intellectual inanity. … Amateur ethics are so dominant that expertise, talent and knowledge are loosing ground. Superficial political analyses, pathetic videos, unreadable novels. The Internet today is like a state of nature closer to Hobbes than to Rousseau, where human behaviour is blossoming without any social rules or regulations. Anarchy. … The Web 2.0 is killing our culture, taking over our economy and destroying our codes of conduct. All this because of a Utopian faith in technological information .”

Aug 22

confession

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Last modified: August 22, 2007

They say that confession is good for the soul. I realize I have been woefully tardy in keeping up with this blog. I have a couple of excuses, one I lost my password, two I keep forgetting to find it.

That being said, I realize that excuses don’t go far. I would like to apologize for my inept posting on this blog, and will begin a new day today.

This is my ethics advise for the day. If you messed it up, admit it, make the best amends you can, and move on.