Wired needs remix

Wired had an interesting set of articles in the July 2005 issue on the rise of
cut and paste culture.

They touch on the virtual band Gorillaz, Quentin Tarantino, even bring in
good old William Gibson!

But I would have liked a bit of analysis. Maybe even an editorial stance:
is this "good"? "Bad"? Hard to tell. The subtle - maybe not so subtle -
message was that is was "all good".

But I am not so sure.

It is by now clear that all this surface stuff that passes for our present
culture has no depth. Literally. As Michael Bracewell makes clear in
his recent book, "When Surface Was Depth," all we have now is culture
as a series of events, with little to no analysis of what is going on.

This collapse of depth to surface has been going on for some time now.
Ken Wilber makes this point well in his "Marriage of the Sense and Soul".

Ever since modernity (and then post-modernity) won out in the cultural
scene, the richer depth of culture has been loosing ground little by little
under the relentless attack of 'efficiency' and 'utility'. "Scientism,"
the idea that the only way to perceive the world is through reason, and
that science is the only method of valorizing the world, has been flattening
everything in its path.

We need to get out of flatland, and explore the depths of the Tree of Life,
of the pillars of Chesed (Mercy) and Gevurah (Severity). Standing between them,
we might reach Tipheret, Beauty.

Zakh ayntz un Zakh tzvay