*sigh* Adbusters does so much of value. Then you come out with these silly, extremist attitudes that just make you look like crackpots. Cyborg is a loaded word. A very, very loaded word. Using it, intentionally, in this context and with this much mass behind it is not only disrespectful, but like PETA, counter-productive to your end goals. Plus it makes you look stupid when you rant about the evils of technology by posting on a website. Just saying. This neo-Luddite nonsense doesn't serve you. You are trying to hold back a flood with a garden trowel. The only path forward is one of innovation. With progress and innovation, comes unanticipated social ills and sometimes worse evils. That's merely a fact of life. The murder rate has gone up, since the invention of personal firearms. Any argument that entails 'get rid of guns' is non-functional. Period. It does not serve your cause. It is, by definition, short-sighted and empty liberal feel-good flailing. Any time your argument can be summed up as 'if everybody just does good, all the time, the world will be a perfect place' or any time it can be defeated with 'what if I kept a gun, then I'd be the most powerful person on the planet' you've wasted your time and the time of your supporters. I think the idea that screens muddy the world is an interesting one and one that deserves more investigation and research and experimentation. I think, as a personal choice, we have to commit ourselves to 'keeping it real'. But expecting everyone in the world to do so, because you think it is good, and convincing them of the strength of your idea via anti-based propaganda is dishonest. And dishonorable. It is immoral. And, like the anti-drug 'just say no', DARE campaigns...any time you lie or spin to your audience, about anything, no matter how trivial you lose credibility. All you have to sell, at this point, it sounds like, is your credibility. I know it's fun to be liberal and want to change the world. I'm not conservative, in case that sounds like a politics-based imprecation. But, policies have to make sense. They have to actually work. Railing about problems, while offering no realistic, practical, useful solutions is spume. Needless, useless, emotional venting. Like 13-year old friends drama. One little girl hates the other, nobody knows why, the dispute drags on for years, involves horrible gossip, slander, even possibly physical violence, but accomplishes nothing and has no realistic, rational goals. In effect, it becomes emotional masturbation. Most sane, adult people are too busy, too stressed out, and too occupied with life and practicalities to indulge in that for very long. Make a change. Make progress. Find a solution. Railing about the problem, particularly with childish, cheesy demagoguery does nothing useful toward the problem. Though it does get you a lot of attention, most of it is expressed in the form of a sigh. Or changing the channel. K.