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The theme of a recent front-page story in the New York Times was that the failure to flex political muscle demonstrates an arrogance and stubbornness for which Microsoft is now paying the price.
In fact, I really like this part of the Internet most of all, the ability of people to bypass gatekeepers and perhaps even flex their minds a bit.
Haldane, the eminent biologist who was then in his heyday as a Marxist intellectual, was provoked by the word miraculous in the title to flex his dialectic muscles at it in a lengthy review in The Rationalist Press Annual for 1943: as I remember, he dismissed it as a nefarious supernaturalist plot.
A cover story advises workers to exploit the best job market in history by milking their employers for higher pay, flex time, continuing education, shorter hours, gym memberships, etc. (Computer experts, not surprisingly, have the most leverage.)
The Majority 2000 site, which plans to launch next January, is part of a growing trend of powerful voting blocs using the Internet to flex their political muscles.