tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post8418781723193327825..comments2024-01-22T16:54:30.446-08:00Comments on Richard Kulisz: There Is No New Internet EconomyRichard Kuliszhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05450367878517586463noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-63353103313019092612010-02-04T21:41:42.731-08:002010-02-04T21:41:42.731-08:00Well,Mr. Kulisz, you show yourself to be a master ...Well,Mr. Kulisz, you show yourself to be a master of nasty invective, but hardly a serious thinker on anything. Insults will not prove your points. My short answer was hardly intended to to be more than a precis. <br /><br />Yes, the term politics can be metaphorically extended in many directions, but it is quite different from the kinds of interactions that define an attention economy. Hollywood politics is hardly what defines Hollywood, nor do corporate politics define a corporation, the attention its gets or how attention flows through it. Get a grip. If you think "metacircularity" means anything important, then explain it clearly. So far you have not. <br /><br />Further, why should your definition of economy be taken seriously? You list several elements, but those are not motivating factors in all circumstances. <br /> <br />Even your first point about 4 kinds of system is just rhetoric. Why just four? How could that possibly be demonstrated? Even with these 4, are they to be in unchanging equilibrium with one another?. If not, that means that different kinds of systems involving them are possible, and it would be useful to have ways to describe the differences. Ignoring that possibility is certainly not very convincing.<br /><br />Reductionism, which you practice here, says, in essence that there can be nothing new under (or beyond) the sun, as well as no new ideas or developments. If you think that helps you understand the world, you are welcome to that outlook, but don''t expect others to think you have anything interesting to say. <br /><br />Bye bye.Michael H. Goldhaberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13608924122661414551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-81846630168088032372010-02-04T13:01:11.738-08:002010-02-04T13:01:11.738-08:00Your "understanding" of the word economy...Your "understanding" of the word economy is obviously and <b>provably</b> wrong since politics fits all of these criteria.<br /><br />Politics involves exchanges of commands and actions. It involves the powerful accumulating ever more power. And it involves them subjugating the powerless.<br /><br />There's not much more wrong you could be. In fact no, you <i>couldn't</i> be more wrong.<br /><br />I strongly recommend you learn the art of debate. Especially the part where one pro-actively insulates oneself from the accusations one leverages on others. Not doing so makes you look like a douche.<br /><br />Oh and your implication that only politicians do politics makes you look like a moron. Have you never heard of the term "corporate politics"? Or hey, how about "Hollywood politics"?<br /><br />You've just lost every smattering of respect I had for you by proving you're lacking of a brain to think with. I don't give a shit what you have to say anymore.Richard Kuliszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450367878517586463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-57989180067496458052010-02-04T12:02:07.278-08:002010-02-04T12:02:07.278-08:00Well, you are almost completely wrong, if you unde...Well, you are almost completely wrong, if you understand the word economy as I do, involving:<br /> <br />1) transactions involving something scarce and desirable that bind a society or several societies together;<br />2) a principle of growth;<br />3) relations between a driving class and the more or less driven.;<br /><br />The attention economy is driven by stars and would be stars; these stars are not by any means limited to politicians in the usual sense, nor is the power at all necessarily in the political sphere, and more than a factory owner's power over the employees is.<br /><br />I have said much more about all this on my blog at Goldhaber.org<br /><br />Best,<br />Michael H. GoldhaberMichael H. Goldhaberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13608924122661414551noreply@blogger.com