Well it has been a while since I had the mental energy to post anything here. The subject of Internet indexing or "search" is sooooo depressing now that the marketing shysters completely control/dominate all reporting and discussion. The general (Internet Consuming) public is out of the knowledge and scrutiny loop and sadly is apparently happy to be so. Outside of content producing, my use of the Internet has dropped to an all-time low since the inception of my introduction to it back in the DOS days... not uncoincidentally I'm also watching a lot less cable television as the marketing blight has gotten quite insufferable. It seems apparent that I don't represent a trend... but who really knows for sure what's happening regarding demographics and usage. I would speculate that among people with hi IQ's "television" is not attracting much of an audience.

This year, another big nail was driven into the "rational conversation about Internet search" coffin when the pseudoscientists (the only kind of scientists left in the world) at the National Academy of Sciences gave the issue another thorough whitewashing by publishing their, fore years late, report on The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation. Titled "Signposts in Cyberspace" (I made an html copy... 1,150k). The report uses about 6 million superfluous words to say simply that capitalists' greed is doing a wonderful job controlling the Internet. The obvious giveaway that these "scientists" have no credibility whatsoever was revealed early in the report and they basically endorsed the silly creation of the artificial industry that resells domain names at 7 or 800% of their real value.

On the subject of search the report is just a chronology of all the simplistic jargon that has been written on the subject since the moron virus infected the world population around 1998 and everyone became a drone in the service of capitalist deception (ie. Stake Oil Marketing). The "scientific" report concludes that the monetized search/Internet indexing industry is serving the Internet well. The fact that they draw that conclusion without making any fair comparisons to what could be is a pretty glaring omission. In other words, the illogic is no more complex than, google must be great (the best we can do) because more people use it. It's kind of like saying the space shuttle was a great idea because it doesn't crash most of the time.

On these pages I have attempted to make a persuasive argument that the Internet "should be" the greatest line straightener in the history of mankind.

• That it could easily eliminate most of the inefficiencies that extend the distance between production and consumption.
• That we could be saving Zillions of dollars in unproductive, stupid and wasted time and labor.
• That the Internet could easily make us all much richer and our lives obviously easier and better. etc.

I also have attempted to persuasively explain that the cost of this progress to a more perfect world would be a trivial few measly million dollars and maybe a few tiny regulations. (From my perspective, the idea that we might actually discourage lying doesn't exactly seem Draconian.)

Unfortunately my attempt has been a failure... Too many people are wearing greed colored glasses and really have no capacity or time to think or act outside the limits of populist jargon or their own self interest. I have no doubt that future history (if we are able to survive the next few decades) will prove me right. Unfortunately, that exoneration won't change the truth of my failure and it won't undo all the waste endured as "we" quite deliberately (like the slave owners of the South) delay and obstruct progress.... You are all such a bunch of assholes, you make me embarrassed to be human.