Information Society
We have gone the way of the hunter/gatherer societies of old. Granted on the planet there are still small bands or tribes who practice the sustanible living traditions of their forefathers and survive as part of the ecosystem. Modern culture however is living in the information age. Thinking of the hunter/gatherer I figure that people are now hunters and gatherers of information.
With blogs and RRS feeds and information flowing in from all directions (check out google news) we have developed our skills to assumulate information as if we were hunting bison on the great plains.
The social order to the blog culture comes into play next. Those people who are on top of the social order for the information they gather and then dispurse to others. I have not read Andrew Sullivan but from what I am aware he would be like the high priest of the blogger sect. Wondering then do we have the heros and antiheros of myth built into our blogs. Dawn, goddess of the power light, Todd the Loki of the web, Kim the Demeter online, Ice Chick the Venus on a circut chip. It makes one wonder.