Culture matters
4th August 2008
Megan McArdle points out some of the dystopian aspects of modern society.
The internet has allowed the deviants to find each other, to construct a community with shared norms that tolerate, even celebrate, the pain of others. And it cloaks them in sufficient anonymity to get by in the outside world. If people knew what they had done, I doubt they’d survive two weeks–no one would sell them food, rent them shelter, or for that matter, permit them to merge into the exit lane. But no one knows.