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Andrew Keen (born circa 1960) is a British-American entrepreneur and author. He is particularly known for his view that the current Internet culture and the Web 2.0 trend may be debasing culture, an opinion he shares with Jaron Lanier and Nicholas G. Carr among others. Keen is especially concerned about the way that the current Internet culture undermines the authority of learned experts and the work of professionals.
Keen was born in Hampstead, North London. He attended the University of London, studying History under Hugh Seton-Watson, a British historian and political scientist. Keen earned a bachelor's degree in history and then studied at the University of Sarajevo in Yugoslavia. Having been influenced by Josef Škvorecký, Danilo Kiš, Jaroslav Hašek and especially the writings of Franz Kafka; Keen relocated to America, where he earned a master's degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under Ken Jowitt. After Berkeley, Keen taught modern history and politics at Tufts University, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Keen continued academic teaching while he developed a parallel career as a popular cultural critic and began utilizing the Internet in the early nineties. He currently lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.
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Can you hear my silent screams?
Can't you see I'm screaming out your name?
From here where I stand
It's all so clear to me
Now I can see myself drowning into tears
Echoes screaming inside my head
There's no one to take and to hold my hand
There where I stood I thought I could never fail
All my desires drove me insane
I was not prepared to lose that fight against myself
I see through you beyond your eyes
I'm flying with my broken wings
I'm looking for the one I am
There's still time to open up my eyes and realize
Mirror I'm calling you, show me my cold face
Look in my eyes, show me the reasons
Tell my why!
And now I wanna know where my life could go
Heaven or hell,
Evil or angel,
I don't know...
I see through you beyond your eyes
I'm flying with my broken wings
I'm looking fot the one I am
There's still time to open up my eyes and realize
I see through you beyond your eyes
I'm flying with my broken wings
I'm looking for the one I am
There's still time to open up my eyes and realize: