Editor’s note : This guest post is by Andrew Keen, the author of Cult of the Amateur and an advisor to Arts and Labs , a collaboration between entertainment companies, software providers, telecommunications providers, artists and creators. Some people don’t like TV Everywhere , Comcast’s and Time Warner’s plan to bring cable TV to the Web. They are just paranoid. Allow me to explain. In his 1964 Harper’s Magazine essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter argued that American politics has often been a stage for excessively conspiratorial and suspicious minds from both the left and the right. What disturbed Hofstadter most of all was the sanity of the paranoid. “It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that make the phenomenon significant,” he explained

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