Still Nabokov-free WAS Re: NN Gibson re Orwell

[David Morris]

--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Milly:
> >"Decentralization", perhaps on a purely technical level, but, from its
inception, a network that was designed to keep power in the hands of the
government,

This is pure bullshit.  It was designed for reliable military communication,
which does not equate to "keep[ing] power in the hands of the government" [and
by implication "out of the hands of "us].  And that power is now available to
anyone w/ a modem (even more so if encryption is used), so I guess the
government goofed, right?

>> and, later as the Internet became commercialized, the corporations that
implemented it.

> Well you're obviously biased against corporations for some reason.

"Corporations" and "Government" form the Universal "THEY."  Univesally
applicable and undeniably true for someone who takes GR as fundamentaist
Gospel.
 
> Gibson's point with the internet has always been that it allows information
sharing between people who otherwise would not be able to do so.  If
information is power, then information sharing is empowerment.

This is so centrally true that one can't imagine Pynchon so obviously blowing
it in his foreword.  He should get out of the house more.

David Morris

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