Internet: communial property within capitalist framework

When you can get something like the intelligence of the so called first world at your fingertip. When you listen to a new artist and within a few minutes have it to listen on your iPod, what is that if not communal property within capitalism, but always fettered by the very system that formed it.

-O-

I took my family to one of the best Chinese restaurants in the city. I mean not in terms of service or even luxury but of taste. The where reluctant mostly because they were weary of eating something that is usually served as leftovers of massed produced gelatinous, saccharine, oily buffet. This was another story all together. It all started almost alarmingly like a bad date. Mom was all over the place and of course they have two menus one traditional Chinese and the other a list of those reproductions of the buffets that one usually encounters. So of course my parent's where confused and the lady at taking our order did not help much. Then everything fell into place. I convinced the lady to leave us be. Everything we ordered was amazing and even more because we've been accustomed to vegetable dinners now that we are eating less and less meat. Then came the kicker. As we where driving home the transmission on my mom's soccer mom van failed about half way home.
Brother and I had been arguing about how homosexuals injured or not their children when they came out as gay to them and separated. Of course I maintained that God was punishing us for talking openly about homosexuals :)
My dad, the responsible one, said that they truck that I had called out was not coming so ever so slowly. Ever incessantly he kept the van moving never going as fast as 10 miles per hour. We creped along for almost two hours from 10 until finally getting home at midnight, a trip that usually takes about fifteen minutes when everything is working fine.
My brother, dad and I talked about our realization uncovered by what my brother calls "anomalies in the system." i think that our talks are affecting my brother in ways that I did not think could affect him. I always thought of him as a little more conservative than dad and I but it was a revelation for me to hear him articulate his feelings towards analyzing the world as dad and I have done for our time together. Goes back to the thesis my dad has about understanding in that we understand for ourselves and not for others. This is our perspective and it is good to tell and teach others, but one should not feel that because one knows "the truth" one should go around trying to convince others. In fact, he would say, that is a fools errand.
I understand that. This last Engels meeting was a kind of test tube. You find people that understand and sometimes, but almost always the exception, you may get someone that comes over from the other side. To me Marx was not terribly exciting until a few months ago. Now I can't get enough.
My mom's side of the family is here for the Holidays. I need to talk to them more than I've done these few hours that they have been here.
I've started reading "The Golden Compass" it's good I'm about half way through it. I finished Anna Karenina! I'm Done.