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Name: Demitria Monde Thraam
From: California
Bio: Writer, artist, dedicated psychedelist since 1981
Area of Expertise: Author/Editor/Journalist
Topic: General, Overarching Remarks
Headline: Our ‘Last Best Hope’?
Nutshell: If the Net can manage to sidestep falling into total corporate control, it may be the only glue that can hold us together.
Vision:My usual overcynical, pessimistic mind, and its view of the world outside has one huge source of undarkening that contrasts the rest of its baleful contents: my "netophilia." Though the net has become a tool not only for education but also for corporatism -which Mussolini himself once called a better word for fascism – it nevertheless remains the harbinger of our first generation of global communicators. It will be much harder for the "controllers" at the economic ladder’s top rung to line us up against one other in any truly effective way, because we have made friends in other nations, and have gotten closer to their humanity. They are no longer imaginary postulations, but people, who tell us of their lives and show interest in our own. When language barriers come down this process will escalate.
This is the biggest thing standing in the way of the world corporatist agenda, and we will see its ugly heads rise and its tentacles tighten around its nodes as the cabals attempt to quash it. But it has become necessary to their economic dominance – if they over-control the net, they will lose more than they could possibly gain.
This is the one single factor of this beknighted century’s first decade that gives me enough hopeful energy to continue slogging through each horrid day of watching my country – the once-beloved USA – become a corporatist dictatorship dressed in democratic costuming. May the Net never fall.
Date Submitted: January 26, 2005
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