Is Ray worried only that the status quo will change? Oh for the heady early days of the internet, when one could use the words "chaos mage" unironically and not be laughed off of usenet summarily. If this question sincerely worried anyone, what keeps him from at least researching the fuck out of it, or otherwise influencing its path of development?

Oops, lost it. What is it, oh activist, I should seek to oppose? Man's vying for advantage? His fondness for efficiency? His love of knowledge? I have a bone to pick with gravity, too, but you don't see me out canvassing. What I am talking about is frightening, because it's inevitable.

To oppose it is to oppose human nature, but it means the destruction of what most would call human. A bug in our programming, you could say, except we're NOT JUST COMPUTARS and so it's a fucking .... uhhhh ... bug ... in our .... ahh... moral programming. I mean, our morals.

(See here we get to one of my little crosses to bear where the future is concerned: why are people becoming apathetic and anxious at the same time? It is as though modernization has weakened human will inasmuch as it has mollified the elements and provided for our every comfort. What does that mean?)

Apathy is an immediate thing; anxiety, a forward-looking thing. Our short-term comfort and long-term happiness are no longer connected in any comprehensible way.