the crass, commercial bits supposedly feeding the internet explosion, the titillating e-gizmos that boost eyeball counts and keep the day-traders spinning like cracked-out dust devils before their NASDAQ shrines ...yeah, sure! this is real commerce and we're all going to be very very rich very soon -- uh-huh ... and then we'll all drive BMWs -- no, Bugattis -- vacation in New Zealand's alps, wear designer apres-ski togs woven from hemp, own vast tracts of scenic wilderness in Montana and chic little villas in Provence ... and we'll save the orangutan, and, and post our poetry on the hulls of Uzbeki launch missiles, and and and ... ahh ha ha ha ha ... yes! yes! it's all really really real ... look! over there ... just on the horizon!!
