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“The internet is a public utility. We’re all aware of that…” his voice trailing off a little at the end.

Had he said that aloud? In his late thirties now, every time he got high he sort of doubted his own internal monologue’s ability to be honest, or internal. And he was high now. Again.

“Shouldn’t there be a right to be online? … Shouldn’t there be a fundamental right NOT to be online?” he thought/said. “And who can guarantee rights? Only a government.”

“Only a legitimate government,” he qualified, “made of civil servants who still consider themselves members of the disadvantaged classes. A government that derives its legitimacy from the people by holding itself accountable to them. All of them. And not just the ones that can pay. And who side with the powerless in matters of state”

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“But doesn’t a people contain multiple classes? And isn’t that the real problem? There shouldn’t be different socio-economic classes. There probably shouldn’t be economics, either?” He wondered what Marx would say and resolved to look it up later on the public utility.

The sun set outside. A post-solstice sunset…low in the south, bitterly cold. It was 5pm.

Frivolous Theorem of the Internet

Almost no one will ever read this.

See also: Frivolous Theorem of Arithmetic.