The web's earliest ARCHITECTS and pioneers fought for their vision of freedom on the Internet at a time when it was STILL small forums for conversation and text-based gaming. They THOUGHT the web could be adequately governed by its users without their needing to EMPOWER anyone to police it.

It's the little added bonus of REALISM that MAKES the DIFFERENCE between an adequately done stunt and a really CONVINCING one.

A game like 'Myst' may be a gorgeous slide SHOW that preserves its BEAUTY at the expense of speed. A game like 'Doom' sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye SOON adjusts: the degree of DETAIL more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.

But there is just no way to adequately PREPARE a 10-year old for the SUDDEN loss of a much-loved father. It was a confusing TIME, with many PAINFUL MOMENTS.

There is a CENTRAL flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems SOMEHOW unable to adequately HELP or protect itself. Normal citizens feel POWERLESS, isolated and disturbed.