Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

Theory in all of this: technology represents a significant advancement in society. Generally, the most technically saavy are also the most cynical and intelligent. Now, here's a thought: what if technology stocks are being repressed by the US government as a way for the Republicans to devalue education and as a result depend their power on the idiots in this country? Think about it. Most technology people are liberals whose God is found in the machine. That is the antithesis of the position of the Republican party. It also denigrates their core supporters which are backwater, dumbass fucks (the rich folk supply the media and money, the dumb fucks represent the vote). If technology was pushed like in the dot com boom, that would force education to become a top priority since it would force everyone to become more competitive. With greater emphasis on education, you have issues in ethics being exposed since more people are going to higher education where these issues are brought to light. Since most colleges endeavor to make students well rounded, they would become exposed to more critical thinking in the states, thus driving down the media's ability to fool people into believing the crap on TV. As TV provides the biggest forum for propaganda (which is how we got into the Iraq War in the first place as it, ahem, coincidentally close to the 9-11 assault, by our government, i mean by these generic beared terrorists), the elimination of that would destroy the Republicans biggest weapon against the democratic party. (as they did a wonderful job in creating so many FUDs to help bolster Bush's vote). The other thing was that the technology boom proved to be a threat to American capitalism as it inverted the traditional paradigm of employers being in power. Instead, with the extreme growth of companies, many job opportunities became available for the non-elite (that is, those not traditionally allowed to penetrate past barriers as in college => work). With money being tossed around frivolously, the market truly became a "Free Market Economy" rather than a winner take-all event. The only technology Republicans worship are those for controlling the masses: Weapons and security. Other areas such as improving our lives and medical are thrown out as evident by Bush's proposed Budget.