Thursday, March 28, 2002 - No Simpler than this' Thoughts Archive - like it or not, we're all in this together.

Howling Mad Over Hollings' Bill

"Jim Dinda's apartment is a high-tech entertainment haven, but that could change if a bill that restricts how electronics devices work is passed into law."

if this passes then corporations rather than individuals will truly be the benefactors of this goverment. pretty soon everyone will know their place in the new society. no more existential angst. we'll all get assigned a slot that tells us who we are in the new/old corporate feudalism.

having watched jules verne on tv some weeks ago this makes me think that perhaps the people paying our legislators would feel more at home in czarist russia. they'd not have to pretend that either they or anyone else is in favor of the individual.

speaking of tv... it hit me the other day that there are no more individual heroes. its all teams working for more or less faceless directors, or to agendas that give them special treatment under the law. there's no more support for the individual.. seemed that way anyhow.

anyway.. this bill is just one of the countless assaults by corporate rent-seekers who would not have a role if individuals were truly making up the market.