I watched a movie last night with my son. It was a rather realistic portrayal of one of the first battles of the Vietnam war ("We Were Solders") I was struck by the effect of seeing reality on television. The mythologist, James Campbell, likened the television to "the new campfire of the technological age". We receive the vast majority of our knowledge and awareness of the world through it. Our children are educated by it. Even in tribal Africa villages often have at least one working television. The universe has become an image on a box. After the movie was over the sci-fi classic "Running Man" came on. The prophetic, dystopian quality of watching that movie in the year 2002 was pointed and stilling. Reality television has become the fastest growing class of "entertainment" around the world. The few who, being in "Hollywood" and "Madison Ave.", are given the job of broadcasting to us are the priests of the truth and we are their acolytes. With the coming of the internet and the growth of high speed access we are moving into an even greater age of communication. One in which all will broadcast to all and the mysteries of chaos theory and neural networking will create a De Facto Group-mind. We are far past the point where we can speculate as to whether the human mind is an isolated phenomenon. Whether or not the capacity to communicate from mind to mind directly, or asynchronously, or to draw from a pool of common thought ever existed, it does now.