Technology has enabled us to seal ourselves off from general social interaction – via iPods, cell-phones, and the like. But it has also made those new little homes completely transparent. No email is private; no website can be kept from dissemination; no secrets are allowed; no space for private communication really allowed any more. We have managed to combine social atomization while also destroying privacy. Way to go! My thoughts on this new world are now posted opposite.
DERBYSHIRE AWARD NOMINEE: “DEALING WITH COMMIE JOURNALISTS: Jonah – Seems to me the best advice one can offer our troops manning checkpoints in Iraq is the same as that given informally by friends & neighbors to me when I became an armed homeowner: If you have to shoot, shoot to kill. You’ll face much less trouble afterwards.” – John Derbyshire, arguing for an Eason Jordan approach to Iraqi checkpoints. He never disappoints, does he?
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