Well, not really to JWD members, but it works, so what the heck. This is from the final day of his online diary for Slate.
Actually, I'm kind of fascinated by this whole Internet thing?why we like it, what good or ill it's done for us as a people, that kind of deal. Experts want us to believe that it has brought the world together, and maybe that's true. But it seems to have brought us together in the dark, sitting alone in a backroom somewhere in our underwear, talking to others without the simple graces that 5-year-olds learn on their first day of kindergarten. The world can be an even bigger, more mischievous oyster when it's hidden away, done in private, behind closed doors. Yeah, yeah, I know, this whole computer thing has been great for research and term papers and made it much easier to get the new John Grisham novel delivered right to your doorstep, but I can't help feeling that it casts a certain shadow over us, a darkness that makes it just that much simpler to be as grim or bad or alone as we want to be. Hey, but that's probably just me talking. I should get some breakfast?don't worry, it'll be very healthy and sensible?and I'll feel much better. But really, you folks should get out more.