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Originally Posted by knox
From that logic, they wouldn't have allowed the Internet to reach us, considering how many industries it could potentially harm: the music, film, publishing, educational etc.
but we wanted it, and once we want it and we're willing to pay for it, someone will do it, they have no choice.
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There's a strong argument made by Zizek that the internet, and all that it represents, might prove to be one thing that capitalism's logic ultimately won't be able to reconcile itself with. He argues that if capitalism is moving further away from traditional ideas of industry into more fluid, less tangible, knowledge based sources, then the internet - and the entire digital realm that it represents, while doing wonders in generating enormous quantities of information, will eventually frustrate capitalism (in Zizek's view terminally) through it's underlying (and I suspect ultimately irreversible) principle of free exchange. Whether the Left will be able to step in with a more viable system during capitalism's predicted crisis is, of course, up to the Left itself.