Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

The Dark Side of Internet Dumb-ocracy

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?-Henrik Ibsen, “An Enemy of the People” The Internet, as [...]

Theater Review (NYC): As We Speak by John Patrick Bray

(This review was originally published on Blogcritics). If there’s any reason to see As We Speak, an otherwise unbearable new play by John Patrick Bray, it’s to see how theater is slowly beginning to adapt to the Web 2.0 era. It seems virtually impossible to dramatize a generation who grasps their laptops like respirators, but [...]