The neutrality of the new medium, coupled with its universality, causes a double progression, an infernal spiral dialectic of transgression and repression. If one can learn how to make an atomic bomb on the Internet, then powers of surveillance and limitation must increase proportionally to what subverts them. Anyone with a computer and a minimum of capital can participate in the structural center of advanced capitalism. Here again the subject disappears in the jouissance of surplus value promised by his investments. All this reminds one of the speculative tulip bubble in seventeenth century Holland.
Demand creates demand in an apparently infinite ascending spiral.
The traditional criteria of evaluation go out of the window and financial analysts invent new justifications to legitimize the charters' parabolic curves. An innumerable mass of intermediaries will become unemployed. Here again the accumulation and the satisfaction of demand correspond to an ever greater alienation of desire. The subject collapses under the merchandise he can afford, in the same way he alienates and abolishes himself in a proliferation of sexual images in MUD rooms. There is a certain discontent in civilization, which is the result of its ineluctable progression.