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On the subject of the throngs of people (of which I was one) waiting for the Apple iPhone to be released this evening, Fake Steve Jobs saidbest:

This is a genuine outpouring of love and enthusiasm and excitement from people whose souls have been stirred by the wonder of technology and the ability to communicate with other human beings in ways that have never before been possible. That’s what this is about. It’s about communicating. It’s about connecting. It’s about bringing the world together in common cause.

He continues:

It’s about saying, Look, I realize there’s something bad happening in Darfur, and there’s some kind of AIDS epidemic in Africa, and there’s some crazies who want to blow us all up, and there’s a war in Iraq where thousands of people are dying for no reason — and yes, those things are important, and someday we may take to the streets to say something about them, if we can think of anything to say about them, but for now we Americans take to the streets for this cause.

So unbelievably true. And incredibly sad.

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