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...infotainment outlets that they can no longer draw the line between where reality begins and ends. After all, in the age of interactive media, kids use the same PC to play consequence-free shoot-'em-up video games, such as Doom, and to communicate with real people in chat rooms. And who hasn't had the mind-numbing experience of time standing still while surfing the Web? It might not be that much of a stretch to argue that after spending hours gliding through a barrage of images and factoids, Campbell didn't realize the implications of his actions. Maybe...
...like looking for blood dripping out of a car trunk," says Cohen. "Even innocent people run for a lot of reasons - including fear of the police." Of course, as the prevailing Justices might point out, people with nothing to hide shouldn't have a problem taking a moment to chat with a group of friendly officers...
...emerging technologies that purport to bind people together have also created a new information class imposed on the others. Not everyone has a computer, so there is that class of outsiders. Even among the insiders, people seek virtual localities where they find their own kind--chess players chat with chess players, militia members with militia members. Since communication is the soul of democracy, the Internet should have become the great equalizer, but most people are in touch with their own, home alone...
...crisis, in which he explained to families why it was safer to return their money to the banks rather than keep it hidden at home, large deposits began flowing back into the banking system. When he asked everyone to spread a map before them in preparation for a fireside chat on the war in the Pacific, map stores sold more maps in a span of days than they had in an entire year. When he announced a rubber shortage that Americans could help fill, millions of householders, delighted at the call for service, reached into their homes and yards...
...insistent on absolute regularity in his daily regimen that he safety-pinned a watch to his homespun dhoti, synchronized with the clock at his ashram. He scheduled his bowel movements for 20 minutes morning and afternoon. "The bathroom is a temple," he said, and anyone was welcome to chat with him there. He had a cleansing enema every night...