Title: Why The Internet Should Be A Public Utility - PopularResistance.Org
Headings: Why The Internet Should Be A Public Utility
Why The Internet Should Be A Public Utility
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Content: Can you imagine life without the net? Would you want to? These questions of the human good are deeper and subtler than American thought has come to suppose. The good is not something that the invisible hand can always ineluctably provide. America’s devotion to that hand has become a religion, empty of reason, blind to the world. The hand becomes a fist that punches down human possibility, instead of lifting it up, when we forget that the first job a society has is to provide the basics of life, not only to create luxuries that cannot be fully enjoyed without them. That is what growth truly is: yesterday’s impossibilities becoming today’s necessities. All that is why the internet should be a public utility. This is the 21st century, and to ask monopolistic, unidimensional, profit-maximizing capitalism to allocate the single greatest public good humankind has probably ever created — the place where you can read books, watch films, make relationships, and begin to explore yourself — is like asking the invisible hand to hold a child.