O brave new world!

I always had a vague suspicion that something like this was possible. When I was involved in student activism, I felt that I was just adding one to the power base controlled by the student activist leaders --more of the self-promoting windbags I was trying to oppose-- and that my own thoughts and opinions counted for exactly nothing once I was standing under a banner written by somebody else. Political parties were just the same. I grew slowly resigned to the idea that reason didn't count for much against well-funded and well-advertised campaigns, but I couldn't stop imagining a better way, a system in which one reasoned argument --from anyone!-- could somehow defeat a million repetitions of an idiotic slogan. I didn't know how to bring anything like that about, but I knew it wasn't mathematically impossible.

Since I've been involved in the SOPA/PIPA fight, I feel for the first time in my life that I have political power.