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CommonReader · 07-04-2013, 08:08 AM

I just don't understand it. This journalist started his writing career in 1969, when we all might have been obliterated in an instant or woken up in a nuclear nightmare just because someone at the Kremlin had a seriously bad day or because of some minor military spat spinning out of control. Yet nowadays we are supposed to live in mortal dread because of some goat herders with rifles and because someone might raid our bank accounts or shut down our power supply through the internet?
I don't want to flame here but what he really wants to say seems to be, that the internet perverts the natural order of things, where bad things happen to other people, notably those at the receiving end of the prodigious American firepower. Cheering for the next little war is so much less fun when it might literally hit home at the cosy offices of the WP.

07-04-2013, 08:08 AM	#27
CommonReader Fanatic Posts: 528 Karma: 2530000 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Sony PRS-T3, PRS-650, Vaio Tap 11, iPad Mini	I just don't understand it. This journalist started his writing career in 1969, when we all might have been obliterated in an instant or woken up in a nuclear nightmare just because someone at the Kremlin had a seriously bad day or because of some minor military spat spinning out of control. Yet nowadays we are supposed to live in mortal dread because of some goat herders with rifles and because someone might raid our bank accounts or shut down our power supply through the internet? I don't want to flame here but what he really wants to say seems to be, that the internet perverts the natural order of things, where bad things happen to other people, notably those at the receiving end of the prodigious American firepower. Cheering for the next little war is so much less fun when it might literally hit home at the cosy offices of the WP. Last edited by CommonReader; 07-04-2013 at 08:24 AM.