Arts+Labs advisor Andrew Keen comments on the opponents of "TV Everywhere", and explains that they are just writing another chapter in an ever-expanding book of conspiracy theories:
"Some people don't like TV Everywhere
, Comcast's and Time Warner's plan to bring cable TV to the Web. They are just paranoid.
Allow me to explain. In his 1964 Harper's Magazine essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics",
Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter argued that American
politics has often been a stage for excessively conspiratorial and
suspicious minds from both the left and the right. What disturbed
Hofstadter most of all was the sanity of the paranoid. "It is the use
of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that make
the phenomenon significant," he explained. By infecting normal people,
Hoftstadter worried, the paranoid style had made conspiratorial fantasy
a troublingly recurrent feature of American political culture."
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