A Defense of Tolstoy & the Individual Thinker: A Reply to Clay Shirky

[riky]

A Defense of Tolstoy & the Individual Thinker: A Reply to Clay Shirky
      

I want to respond to Clay Shirky.  I've read War and Peace twice.  It's one of my very favorite novels, and I love it---it's enormously interesting.  In Clay's view, it seems, the new speed and deeply social nature of intellectual discourse means that, soon, the only relevant discourse will occur in blog- or Twitter-sized chunks.  Is this the hip "upstart literature," proudly "diverse, contemporary, and vulgar," that is now "the new high culture"?

If so, God help us.
         

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