Sullivan goes all lefty

[W. Kiernan]

"Peter K." quoted Andrew Sullivan:
> 
> ...But on the Internet, a simple screen name will get you almost
> anywhere free.  Suddenly, motives other than the profit motive begin
> to come into play.  People give you music because they actually want
> you to hear and enjoy it.  People set up their own Web sites because
> they actually want to communicate with others. Chain e-mails pass
> along jokes for the sheer hell of it.  Favorite columns get traded
> around -- and databases are linked together -- purely for mutual
> enlightenment or mutual mischief. By abolishing mine-thine, the Web
> also helps abolish the alienating, propertied distance between one
> person and another.

Pop music, jokes, and newspapers (tomorrow's fish-and-chips paper).  And
don't forget the cyber-sex which is certainly every bit as good as the
human touch.  Meanwhile, the investing class is buying up all the stock
of all the businesses and every last bit of the waterfront real estate.

Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net