Anil Dash, with five awesome minutes on “Defending the indefensible”. His examples: Paris Hilton (more entrepreneurial than she’s given credit for), Michael Jackson as sex molester (was blackmailed), Tea Partiers (access point for reconciling death of white privilege), Powerpoint (abused, but still a powerful visual tool for self-empowerment).
I’m really in the pocket for Team Defending-The-Indefensible. It speaks to this issue of devaluing capitalist math in favor of humanist math, and I think it’s a major corrective-in-progress that the information/internet age has wrought (for the better! “wrought” feels ominous, but I haven’t used it in a while so it stays). my major problem with content and editorial today is every thesis needing to go from This Is Wrong to This Is Right. I can play ball, and it’s probably for the best with rambling tangent-mongers like myself; but it feels like we’re really drawing the straight line for capitalist reasons, not humanist reasons. And maybe we’re shorting ourselves in the process.
