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Clay Shirky is a guru, which is to say a con-man. He's similar to many of the Internet evangelists in that he takes a simplistic idea totally unsupported by reality, wraps it in an overconfident philosophy of human nature (almost invariably evolutionary psychology/sociobiology) and a few anecdotes, and, voila, a book deal (though print is dead, of course). Suddenly he is this great "thinker" and critics, because they are small-minded and easily persuaded by the aura of an intelligence they lack, fawn over his "big ideas."

But, of course, those ideas are pure pabulum. That's OK though. A guru's job, a con-man's job, is to make people think he is a big smart dude so they'll pay him and massage his ego.