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Please rethink.

Do you recall what happened with CBS and the Reagan-bashing movie? The threat of a boycott caused the gay-loving, socialist network to back down. Even liberals understand money. When enough people finally get fed up from all the pc nonsense going on they will take action, so I don't see a reason to rethink.

Um, yeah, we're all inventors. I know: Each inventor can sell his invention to other inventors, and we'll be free, forever. I doubt that there are a "million" more examples.

There all kinds of ways to make your own products and sell them, and people are doing it as we speak. You can find almost anything on the internet that is hand-made by a small-time entrepreneur, including furniture, food, guns, and at reasonable prices. The internet is only one alternative as a way to escape the pc corporate mentality, there are others.

Please don't be one of those Freepers who throws out his theories, then, when someone argues an alternative, you just dig in and dig in and dig in.

Do I "recall" the threat of a boycott over the CBS Reagan movie? Uh, yeah, if I strain my brain...I think I can reach back three months. Oh, yeah, now I remember. It wasn't so much a "threat" of a boycott as a firestorm of protest that reached critical mass very quickly and then held its heat. Once CBS realized they were about to do something unpopular, and that people were not going to go away soon, AND that the movie was inaccurate to boot...yes, they backed down. But how often does something like that happen? Once a decade, once a generation?

As for all the activity going on on the internet, fine, wonderful, it's just one more venue for commerce, and I applaud that. I make part of my money on the net myself. But let's get serious: a couple million entrepreneurs are not going to displace global corporations. (But one thing you said intrigued me: where can I buy guns on the internet? I'm serious.)

There's another way to "escape the pc corporate mentality." Most people just ignore it. Most people understand that it's a joke. Most people park their politics and religion at the door, then go through the door and do their job. When mgmt. crosses the line and makes you sign pledges, that's going too far, and then you can decide to make a stand legally/morally or flee to the internet to sell trinkets to others who have "escaped."

Have you considered that the corrosive effect of PC thinking has infected not just corporations, but virtually every institution in our culture? By the way, if you think you're out there on the net, being free and pure, why don't you post your BELIEFS about controversial subjects right on your business homepage, and only buy from and sell to those who believe as you do. Yeah, that's what I thought.