I believe that the Internet and all the services and ventures it sponsors is essentially militaristically-aligned.

Clausewitz maintained that politics was war by other means.

I maintain that the Internet embraces an identical myth as that that compulses Modern Warfare.

How so?

We are about to lose both of our protracted and dearly-costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

Why?  Because, as overly proud Moderns, we had no doubt that Apache Helicopters and Bunker Busters and Night Vision Weapons and Total Air Superiority were superior to the paltry spirit of any non-highly technologized guerilla resistance that might ever erupt amongst an indigenous people. 

And now we are about to witness that superior weaponry (as once before recently for the Russians in Afghanistan, and also in the case of our own curse of Vietnam) is again no match for the superior (although by no means necessarily cohesive) spirit of a motley resistant people.

The new commander of British military forces has just concluded no less.

Just so, we, as overly proud Moderns believe that the Internet has provided the technogically-superior template and platform for future social (networked) interactions - defying the fate of physical neighbors huddling together, attempting to supercede the actual pleasure of sensuous tactile contact, casting us non-contextually a-stage so as to be disposed to seek nothing better than the cyber-surrogates of true love.   So, too, does Modern Warfare boast of its provisioned pseudo-surreal assets (both technologically and ideologically supposedly-superior) as guarantees of the vanquishment of world-dispatched recalcitrant souls.

No Go, it seems, just as before.

Going to lose those wars.

Just as "social networks" will someday thump and fail in their promises of "replacement intimacy" for what sharing souls have always and will ever know only commingled with one another in secret gardens and never publicly shared.

Do you want a misty view of true intimacy most-delicately hinted  on occasion over a "social network" without a need for leveraging imposter cyber-ruses to compensate for the innate structural inadequacies of network-tempered relationships?

Foomanchu : a love has he celebrated beyond the contort of the Internet's hubris of technological seductions.