The Internet from my point-of-view is the pragmatist's dream and
the marxist's nightmare because on the one hand the free market,
through the use of technology, has created a "free-market" of
information, while on the other hand the information is in the
hands of those controlling access sites. Look at censorship
carried out by Prodigy, AOL, and even the U.S. Government; is
information really being disseminated or filtered of its
impurities by some insane capitalist like the mad general in Dr.
Strangelove? Perhaps Plato was right in saying that speech is
the highest form of communication not because of its
non-counterfeitable nature, but because someone would have to
take the time to make each person mute to restrict him/her from
saying anything that someone else doesn't want to hear.
Are we placing blind faith in the Internet to free us from the
corporeal world where we see difference and place us in a
"classless" structure where anyone who can buy "access" attains
freedom? What implications does this "classless" society of
bourgeois technofreaks who have "access" to the ultimate in
information have on society as a whole?
Your friendly neighborhood bourgeois technofreak of a Marxist
PoMo...bent
scott