kassidy62 | (no subject)

giandujakiss made an entry about An anthropological introduction to YouTube. I watched and I wanted to add a quote from the video that I found personally meaningful and relevant. This is for our kids, right, and for me and for you, too, if you need to hear it, for every time we make a vid or write a fan fiction, or for when we hide our fan life and separate it from everything else, for when we're happy with what we've done with it and for when we feel like we need to hide because of it.

Lawrence Lessig: It is technology that has made them different. And as we see what this technology can do, we need to recognize that you can’t kill the instinct the technology produces, we can only criminalize it. We can’t stop our kids from using it, we can only drive it underground. We can’t make our kids passive again, we can only make them "pirates." And is that good?

We live in this weird time. This kind of age of prohibitions where in many areas of our life, we live life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law, and that’s what we are doing to our kids. They live life knowing that they live it against the law.

That realization is extraordinarily corrosive. Extraordinarily corrupting, and in a democracy, we ought to do better.