The cream memers

Following up on the last post, a couple of other points. Kennilingus assumes that we need a cream of the crop, the best and the brightest, to first model what's next and then lead the masses thereto. I'd suggest that this is a view still stuck in the throws of metaphysical rationality and capitalism. It's very much on display in not only the Republican Party but the establishment Democratic Party. See Thomas Frank's work, for example.
Meanwhile, the emergent collaborative commons movement is well underway without any top-down models hatched by the cream memers. And it was spawned by, you guessed it, the so-called lower right internet. Granted it wasn't the internet by itself, but it's very distributed structure allowed a lot more sharing over a much wider populace so that the tenets of the collaborative commons were enacted without a theory of everything to guide it. And now, after the fact, the likes of Rifkin and the P2P Foundation are reporting on it, and also noting the philosophical and psychological changes enacted therefrom.