The irony of posting this on the blog doesn't escape me.

THE BROOKLYN RAIL - STREETS:

"You're slumped in front of a screen, in the same physical situation as a TV watcher, you've just added a typewriter. And you're 'interactive.' What does that mean? It does not mean community. It's catatonic schizophrenia. So blah blah blah, communicate communicate, data data data. It doesn't mean anything more than catatonics babbling and drooling in a mental institution. Why can't we stop? How is it that five years ago there were no cell phones, and now everyone needs a cell phone? You can pick up any book by any half-brained post-Marxist jerkoff and read about how capitalism creates false needs. Yet we allow it to go on."