This post on the crazy new math of the modern era drives me crazy.

Just like I don't believe in heroes, I don't believe in genius. I believe in community.

The long tail is everywhere, even poetry. The age of the elite creator is replaced by your neighbor the poet/journalist/insert-craft-here. Is there really a problem with anyone being able to write a poem? Soon, with 3-D printing, it won't just be "media" that anyone can create. Soon it will be anything - shoes, mobile phones, vehicles. (Think I'm crazy? Read this and this and this.) And then, once anyone can create anything, brands and elite notions of excellence will be obsolete. It will all come down to relationship -- to my neighbor (physical or digital) and my neighbor's work. We will really dwell in our communities -- be they geographical or otherwise. Personal relationships will matter -- and not much else. It's a beautiful chaotic day that is arriving / has arrived. Instead of lamenting the death of something ("The loss would be incalculable"), celebrate the creation of a radical new way of organizing the world. Burn the money, and the press used to print it. This is something completely different.