[SeaGypsy]

DaveP, the generational thing has been harped on because it is highly relevant to the subject of personal freedom as it is best understood by modern people of all generations.
There was virtually no internet 20 years ago, now it is all pervasive. By far the most popular sites for the internet generation are social networking sites like the ones I mentioned, besides others. Gossip sites are next, closely followed by porn.
There is now such a thing as virtual freedom in a way I doubt the classicists ever imagined. The idea of freedom in itself has been a common theme for hundreds of years in litterature. I doubt most youngsters give it a second thought; as a direct consequence of the virtual freedom offered up by the internet. Try having a conversation with anyone under the age of about 35 about conceptualising freedom, most would not know what you are even talking about and would immediately refer to the internet.
I juxtapose this with the beat, hippy and latte set as being substantially new and different. These 'old school' freedom 'groupthinks' were an evolving intellectual evolution. Whereas the internet generation seem to be in an intellectual devolution.
Freedom is always conceptual, always paradoxical, always limited by the constraints of our environment and our physical as well as intelectual capabilities to perceive the possible distinguished from the unreal. It has always been the greatest pursuit of humanity, but now it has been reduced to the 'right to free internets'.
Is that enough harping on?

[Stonemason]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'T')hanks for posting his interview with Peter Schiff earlier, Stonemason.