Comments on: Online Culture and the Law of Two Feet http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2008/05/online-culture-and-the-law-of-two-feet/ Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Joe http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2008/05/online-culture-and-the-law-of-two-feet/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Joe Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:54:13 +0000 http://www.joep.communityhost.org.uk/?p=45#comment-450 Thanks for contributing, Tea Fan! I would agree that culture today is a rapidly shifting creature. I don't know whether you've come across the concept of Future Shock, but I believe that we're finally getting there and we're all becoming, to a greater or lesser degree, what John Brunner called 'Shockwave Riders'. I agree with your comments about Government and citizens; to me this reflects a general pre-occupation with rights over responsibilities. I'm old enough to remember the 'Social Contract' as a concept, and it seems to me to be a case of 'Contract Terminated'. Thanks for contributing, Tea Fan!

I would agree that culture today is a rapidly shifting creature. I don’t know whether you’ve come across the concept of Future Shock, but I believe that we’re finally getting there and we’re all becoming, to a greater or lesser degree, what John Brunner called ‘Shockwave Riders’.

I agree with your comments about Government and citizens; to me this reflects a general pre-occupation with rights over responsibilities. I’m old enough to remember the ‘Social Contract’ as a concept, and it seems to me to be a case of ‘Contract Terminated’.

]]> By: Tea Fan http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2008/05/online-culture-and-the-law-of-two-feet/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Tea Fan Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:44:04 +0000 http://www.joep.communityhost.org.uk/?p=45#comment-449 Interesting points, Joe. The culture of everything seems to constantly shift. In every job I've done there has been a period when all of the staff got on well and they were quite happy workplaces; everyone knew what was expected of them and did their parts well. But then a couple of people leave, some new people are recruited, and they bring with them a different culture, and the others find that their workplace has completely changed at which point it is probably best to leave. I was thinking about this the other day when watching a news report about teenage drinking. Everyone seems to be looking for easily identifiable reasons for this phenomenon - I suspect what has happened is that our culture has slowly and unconsciously become more tolerant of drinking at a younger age, and is only now realising that this was a bit foolish. The interesting part is that the citizens of this country are now demanding that the government acts - but it wasn't the government who allowed this culture to develop, but the citizens. Any government attempt to change the culture of the society they are elected by seems doomed to failure - it is the citizens themselves who need to change the culture, and they need to do this consciously. Unfortunately we now live in a very passive society, and most people demand that their problems are resolved by someone else. Interesting points, Joe. The culture of everything seems to constantly shift. In every job I’ve done there has been a period when all of the staff got on well and they were quite happy workplaces; everyone knew what was expected of them and did their parts well. But then a couple of people leave, some new people are recruited, and they bring with them a different culture, and the others find that their workplace has completely changed at which point it is probably best to leave.
I was thinking about this the other day when watching a news report about teenage drinking. Everyone seems to be looking for easily identifiable reasons for this phenomenon – I suspect what has happened is that our culture has slowly and unconsciously become more tolerant of drinking at a younger age, and is only now realising that this was a bit foolish. The interesting part is that the citizens of this country are now demanding that the government acts – but it wasn’t the government who allowed this culture to develop, but the citizens. Any government attempt to change the culture of the society they are elected by seems doomed to failure – it is the citizens themselves who need to change the culture, and they need to do this consciously. Unfortunately we now live in a very passive society, and most people demand that their problems are resolved by someone else.

]]>