Somehow the idea is abroad that computer activities are uncreative, as compares, say, with rotating clay against your fingers until it becomes a pot. This is categorically false. Computers involve imagination and creation at the highest level. Computers are an involvement you can really get into, regardless of your trip or your karma. They are toys, they are tools, they are glorious abstractions. So if you like mental creation, toy trains, or abstractions, computers are for you. IF you are interested in democracy and its future, you'd better understand computers. And if you are concenred about power and the way it is being used, and aren't we all right now, the same thing goes.