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They should have taken the loft scene as the foundation for building new kinds of institutions, where the music could be played. But that was not achieved. There’s a lot of failure of things that happened in the ’60s that could have made the conditions for music to day much different. But those failures – they didn’t build institutions. And institutions are the only things that really change the environment.

Er den begavede, demokratiske samtale i Danmark lagt død af spin, medietræning og strategisk kommunikation eller er politisk debat pr. definition altid beskidt og fuld af retoriske kneb?

Why not search for the Buddhist/Hinduist understanding of human existence? Therefore choose the streams that fit our desires, needs and wants in life. It's not a question of being able to consume an ever increasing amount of stream chatter. It's a question about being able to create and recreate reality together with other individual minds that are beneficial to all humans.

den vigtige forskel på teori og praksis: "at det ikke kan være teoriens første opgave at omsætte sig selv i gerning. Teori er et forsøg på at orientere sig. Den må, mener Negt, holde afstand til praksis, hvis den vil redde sin kritiske funktion, for slet ikke at tale om sin sandhedsværdi" (99).

To suddenly be of use again, to find a movement that values truth and intelligence, is like finally coming home for a great many people who have been so frustrated with the anti-intellectual feeling of the last several decades. Academia has also been on the front lines of the attack from the US government, with students at Columbia University told by the US State Dept that discussing Wikileaks on Facebook or Twitter would hurt their chances of a job in the future. Joe McCarthy could not have said it better.

For the true scientific method is this: to make no unnecessary hypotheses, to trust no statements without verification, to test all things as rigorously as possible, to keep no secrets, to attempt no monopolies, to give out one’s best modestly and plainly, serving no other end but knowledge (Wells, 1920).

We’ve seen all kinds of toxins poured into the infostream. Check out a Leni Riefenstahl movie if you want to see what I mean. Try to imagine life during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The state, the church have time and again become mentally oppressive until eventually a resistance emerged — a resistance that, from Martin Luther to Vaclav Havel, said at least in part: “We want our minds back.” Not all the way back: We’ve never owned our minds entirely. But more of our minds, in better shape.

We are the first few generations to receive most of our sense of the world mediated rather than direct, to have it arrive through one screen or another instead of from contact with other human beings or with nature.

imagine instead a thousand different communities, adapted to the physical places they inhabit, sharing insight and difference, appreciating small scale and large heart. Where no musician sells 10 million copies, but 10 million musicians sing each night.

Bjørn Alsted Nielsen forklarer, at demokrati og kunst på mange måder er hinandens modsætninger. Demokratiets opgave er i hans udlægning at beskytte vores livsgrundlag og sikre, at der er balance mellem individ og fællesskab. Demokratiet søger derved at skabe harmoniske individer i et ligeværdigt fællesskab. Og dét mener Alsted Nielsen er de værst tænkelige forudsætninger for at skabe god litteratur.