I guess since I am a hostage to the “cult” of web 2.0 Amateur discourse. I should put in my two cents on Andrew Keen’s postulates from Cult of the Amateur. I am a ware there are millions of opinions similar to this, but that is not the reason it is valid.
Many writers who worry about intellectual anarchy in what people say is “postmodern”(I barely know what that means) society seem to forget a simple irony. The irony is that Western cultural canon is full of iconoclastic figures in every field. If you look to music, Mozart, Beethoven, Elvis, and the Beatles changed culture and music in was probably though amateurish and anarchic by their contemporaries. Science? Einstein was just an amateur according traditionalists in Deutsche Physik. Bruce Lee tinkered with and disrupted rigid tradition to overcome disability and become what many view as a perfect model of a human being.