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'It's that on the surface it says that "the internet is a new form of democracy". So what you're seeing is a new pluralism, a new collage, a new mosaic of all sorts of different ideas that's genuinely representative. But if you analyse what happens, it simplifies things. [Those in social media] are parasitic upon already existing sources of information - they do little research of their own.'What then happens is this idea of the 'hive mind', instead of leading to a new plurality or a new richness, leads to a growing simplicity. Far from being "the wisdom of crowds", it's the stupidity of crowds. Collectively what we are doing is creating a more simplified world.'
Adam Curtis.
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Robert Randolph and the Family Band: If I Had My Way
From the new album, We Walk This Road. RRFB have an amazing sound: blues, funk, soul, rock and roll. This is a reworking of an old gospel song, If I Had My Way, I’d Tear This Building Down. Three lead vocal parts, driving shuffle from the drums, slide guitars, and chugging, finger picked bass lines make for a really pleasing, foot stomping, old-timey record.
