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Wired invented geek mystique and made the promise of the wired world palpable. Perhaps if Louis had tried to go public a few months earlier--at the height of the Net mania he helped create--I would have been the latest, um, thousandaire. But he didn't. It's a mistake his competitors now celebrate like an armistice. Why? Louis tweaked the established media, by beating them to a rich new market. That was forgivable. But then he terrified them by predicting their demise--just as everybody now predicts his. Everybody...
There's lots more, from barbershops tuned into CNBC and cabbies gabbing about mutual funds to a record number of investment clubs and the rise to guru status of two advisers who wear clown hats and go by the name Motley Fool. If it's not a mania, it's certainly close. "I'm nervous," concedes Fossel. "We're finally getting to the point where everyone thinks the market can only go onward and upward...
DIET-PILL MANIA...
...simple explanation for theme mania is that the why factor is overwhelmed by the who and the wow! factors. Stardust, glitz and fantasy are worth the wait. It is entertainment for the price of a burger. Elaborates Tim Zagat, publisher of the Zagat restaurant guides, which rate restaurants in 25 American cities: "The food doesn't have to be all that good, as long as it doesn't poison you. You go because you are interested...
...some of these shows, such as the proliferating Star Trek spin-offs, the aliens are benign, intellectually curious--like American mid-century liberals, only with pointy ears or exposed frontal lobes. The Zeitgeistiest programs, however, tap into a pop persecution mania. Consider this: the U.S. stands unchallenged as a world power, is not at war, enjoys a high standard of living and has relatively stable rates of interest and unemployment; yet polls continue to show a profound malaise. People feel crushed by government, abused by corporate employers, baffled by computers. "Technology is moving fast-forward," says Carter, "and we rarely...