Fantastic article on Kuro5hin (a sort of Slashdot clone, but more general in scope) about the nature of reality and how this relates to the increasing numbers of struggles going on between corporations and individuals, namely how it is that a corporation made up of individuals (such as the RIAA) can end up doing something that none of the individuals themselves want -- a topic originally touched upon, if I recally correctly, by The Grapes of Wrath (which I never finished reading), in which the protagonist's farm is repossessed by the bank, even though the bank employees themselves aren't too thrilled about making somebody homeless.