Life Immitates Art
There's an article on Salon today that I find a bit more disturbing than it looks on the surface. The talk of commercial-skipping as "theft" and of NewsCorp forcing their own version of TiVo on people that requires commercials to be viewed in one form or another, is bringing to mind images of Max Headroom. (Not the Coke commercials, but the cult cyberpunk TV show.) In that dystopia, it was a relatively serious crime to turn your TV off, even if you could figure out how (TVs had no "off" buttons).
I sometimes wonder how exactly some of these corporate robber barons were raised. I mean think about it. These are the type of people that enshrine the freedom of Captains of Industry, and decry any regulations enacted for the common good as immoral, as brakes on the momentum of the economy. They are the heroic rugged individuals who must have absolute freedom to create the wealth of our civilization. Yet a viewer skipping past a commercial is, to these people, committing theft. I realize that I'm being a bit over-dramatic here, I can't help but feel that they see themselves as the Nietzschean supermen of today.
2:53:50 PM 
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