[kipita]

Second, what is "getting high" other than peeking over the self-imposed and socially-imposed barriers put around us, and seeing that the man behind the curtain is no wiser than us, therefore setting us free into a world of Nietzchian Supermen where we all battle each other for control of the realm around us, and doubly-therefore re-instituting the struggle that Sir Mark Thatcher and others are engaged in here on terra firma.

I can understand where you're coming from but don't forget, the PC and public Internet (not ARPNet) were envisioned with a little bit of help. As far as companies or individuals owning countries, human society has tried that latter and the world trend is towards the former. So you just may have a point there.

[HenryLeeII]

The PC was a private venture by companies, wasn't it? And the Internet was the pet of the military/government, but they turned to universities (with the help of private industry) to create it. Governments are so passe; companies and profit - that's where its at now. So buy stock in Wal-Mart, Microsoft, etc., and start plotting which countries they should leverage, and you could be going places. Since you're in Spain, you may want to start networking now with whichever U.S. corporations are active there and see if you can get in on the groundfloor.