I am sitting in the air-conditioned comfort of my study before a magic box. By means of this 'box,' and without stirring from my chair, I did the following this morning: engaged in world-wide electronic correspondence; searched for, found, downloaded and printed out an obscure 19th century article from the JSTOR database; entered the 'card' catalogs of a couple of libraries; played and analyzed chess via the Internet Chess Club; viewed and listened to an old speech by Trotsky via YouTube; discovered and enjoyed an old tune I hadn't heard in 30 years via the same YouTube; published my thoughts to the world via my weblog; received and responded to comments from readers; got the directions to a local German restaurant; worked on an article.
And you don't think the Western culture that made and makes possible this marvellous technology is worth defending?
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