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Putting this note here to reference something I said might reasonably be expected to make the reader want to know what the connection between these apparently disparate points is. You don't explain, and I've an intuition you're not in a position to do so. But if you can, you should. If not, you shouldn't make the note appear to promise that you can.

Improved in many respects, the essay now shows more clearly, however, the difficulty in reaching far and high for tools with which to interpret the near and the low. The text now feels too much like Frankfurt-school name dropping, as you pick a couple of Marcuse quotes and make them stand for a large lump of undigested complex criticism. Does Marcuse think what Habermas thinks, or if not how are the relevantly different or could we have left Habermas out? Is the quote from Horkheimer, which feels like it is a pompous way of saying the obvious, obvious? Perhaps the names are more intimidating to the reader than they are helpful, and it would be simpler to put a simple version of the ideas in the text, linking to the Frankfurt School writings that contain those ideas for those who want to see what you've been reading that's been making you think the thoughts you are presenting. Maybe authority isn't useful here?

Revising to take account of the fact that YouTube isn't only Justin Bieber, and that Warner Music is not likely to find a way to claim it owns the Khan Academy, presents some questions that, as I tried to say last time, it is only easy to ignore if one stops time now. How many years, even if YouTube remained the only practicable way for many or most users to distribute video on the Net (which it most certainly won't), before the educational and informative and politically activist uses of the network have been fully grasped, and are displacing the bullshit? If you do want to get Frankfurt School about it, commodities that make servitude tolerable or invisible must compete at price zero against the ubiquitous presence of commodities that make servitude intolerable and the alternatives visible. What happens then?