Time to talk back …

… The Culture of Shut Up — Jon Lovett — The Atlantic.

…what happens next—how we face the downside of so much connectedness—will determine whether or not this revolution empowers us, or once again empowers [the] gatekeepers. And I don’t want that to happen, because those gatekeepers suck. They’re arrogant and easily swayed by big, nice-sounding dangerous ideas; they’re ambitious and careerist and forgetful and unimaginative and shortsighted; they’re subject to groupthink, beholden to corporate interests, and enamored of fame and power.