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As infuriating as finding out what the mechanisms behind our university system were, I think it's time to get out from under my rage at the president of Hunter. It would seem that the invisible hand of corporate America has no restraints, but I would remind everyone that these ideas, to infiltrate college age consumers, come from people. Some person had an idea and was mainly successful in accomplishing its realization. Why do I applaud the brilliance of some PR guy/gal? Because Ewen's lecture was one sided, emotionally charged, melodramatic, and personal. He lowered his voice when he said, "Let her try to take my job." What happened that he isn't department head anymore? Ok it’s an awesome example about the power of modern PR, but we talked about Cee way too long. I am interested in the other articles we had to read. They dealt with identity and the Internet, which is a topic we didn't get to in the two lectures on Cee. Michael Jana Chan misses the mark in his CNN.com article, "Identity in a virtual world." Chan sees the Internet as a way to escape. I'd like to ask Michael, escape from what, our so-called 'reality'? Of course we like to create other realities, but what's real? Instead of Chan's claim that the Internet only traps us more, I argue that when people do mundane things in virtual reality they are searching to discover who they are. The Internet is another hall of mirrors where one can try on a personality or reality and see what fits. Both Shannon McRae and Judith S. Donath's articles deal with paranoia of what’s on the other side of the screen. This point is immature because cyber-sex is masturbation with a vivid human image; not many people actually think about a computer during their sexual experience; and those who do could just buy a computer and physically have sex with it. Once the ridiculous Janis Joplin reference hit at the end of the first page of McRae's article I knew I was in for a bumpy ride (no pun intended). McRae's Heim evidence is absurd. Just because knowledge is eternal, doesn't mean we use it as a means to actually become infinite; that's delusional. Seeking cyber-sex is fulfilling a primal thirst, not a search for knowledge. Both the articles are out of date and not scholarly; they both speak to the experience of interacting with a machine as part of the sexual experience. I argue that sexual experience online is more than just communicating.