It's All Bullshit: They Really Are Out To Get You

"The rhetoric of Web 2.0 has its roots in the New Age cults popular in Northern California in the 1960s and 1970s. Tim 2.0'Reilly was influenced by the 'human potential movement' at Esalen. Many prominent Valley techies and business pioneers were influenced by Werner Erhard's EST. And these, in turn, drew on a hodgepodge of influences including Reich. The cult-like thinking and playground hostility is evident to anyone who criticises the fad du jour. EST recruiters would silence critics with, 'That's enough of your rationalist bullshit!' - and the damning condemnation, 'You don't get it!', comes directly from the cult."

-- Andrew Orlowski, explaining (further) why the world's going to shit, and why few but TMR seem to acknowledge it (you're soaking in NewAge cultism: like in the movie, The Matrix) your only hope being on The Register.