Good morning, Stanley Leiber.

Referring to the first part of your post: Well that is a good feedback loop into your everyday life.

Is the internet swallowing the real world?

Well, I was reading yet another very well put together anti-Bush tract on the internet the other night, and a Wait A Minute! came up:

Over the last few years, I've read more negative stuff about this guy than I have about Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Attila The Hun, Dracula and Genghis Khan put together, and not only is he still in power, his power isn't even slightly shaken by all this apparently liberating limitless dissent and communication that can occur between people these days.

Why is this?

Has the the internet established itself as a vessel in which to siphon off negative thoughts and feelings before they can have any impact on the real world?

Or perhaps it's like when you're a young man, if you get into pornography - you're probably not going to do anything about getting laid.

Or TV, if you sit on the sofa watching adventure films every night - you're probably not going to go out and have any adventures.

And why is it that England (that traditionally does something new within this sphere every two or three years) hasn't produced any new music scenes/movements since the internet started.

Why is it that TV, including 'serious' news media has become more and more moronic and celebrity obsessed? When I would have thought that that normal media would have been influenced and informed by the web with a net result of it being more intelligent, not less.

Why? Why? Why?