The central mistake of recent digital culture is to chop up a network of individuals so finely that you end up with a mush. You then start to care about the abs

The central mistake of recent digital culture is to chop up a network of individuals so finely that you end up with a mush. You then start to care about the abstraction of the network more than the real people who are networked, even though the network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful. I think aggregated behavior is interesting. While it may be true that Wikipedia and Facebook (and perhaps even more pertinently, 4chan) are networks of individuals chopped into a "mush", each of these resulting mushes has its own unique character and identity. A mega-individual, if you will. I can't see how he could consider that meaningless.