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To: Wigglesworth who wrote (3311)	8/30/1999 1:33:00 AM
From: Wigglesworth	Read Replies (1) of 4023

Free psychiatric profile for the people of the United States!!! Inside the belly of the technobeast Patrick Houston, ZDNet It's as though the rabbi has lost his religion. Douglas Rushkoff, one of cyberculture's leading chroniclers, has recanted his faith in the Internet as a tool of liberation. Instead, in a stunning back flip, the writer, new media thinker and card-carrying member of the digital intelligentsia now claims the Internet has become a hypnotizing and corrupting e-commerce tool. He's even taken a swipe at electronic day trading -- likening the Web's latest darling to a pyramid scheme. "... people in America are walking around hypnotized," he told ZDNN in an interview, wanting things for reasons they don't comprehend and, worse, alienating themselves even farther away from life's real satisfactions.

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