[dogleash]

There's threads of a few interesting ideas in here, unfortunately the presentation teed them up for the current cultural mythos to obliterate them.

A number of years ago, the uptight cultural conformity of the valley bubble branded itself with some of the imagery the author attempts to borrow. The collective consciousness hasn't forgotten how that image was power-blasted away. It was done as cover to sneak in a bunch of orthogonal changes while nobody was looking, but that part's neither here nor there. Forget I even mentioned it. The end result is that we're here now and we have the tools to evaporate this article with one shot at 50 paces.