G'day Mate, or: A Breakdown of Geography

A concept that Virilio highlights in The Information Bomb is that "globalism illustrates the victory of free enterprise over totalitarian collectivism is to understand nothing of the current loss of time intervals, the endless feedback, the telescoping of industrial or post-industrial activities" (8). The distances and geography are breaking up... Dense. Intense. Virilio.I think though, that fanfiction is really a good gathering place for people of all walks of life to converge over a certain love of one thing: writing about Harry Potter having sex. No! I mean.. Fan fiction allows for a group of dedicated writers and readers to join together in a common bond. It doesn't matter where each of these people are from because the Internet has broken down geography so that a person from Australia can chat with someone up in the Yukon INSTANTLY. Well, if they had strange sleeping patterns. At any given time someone can write a fan fiction, post it, and instantly somebody else can provide feedback. The world is growing smaller and smaller. With the translation of popular texts into many different languages as well, even more people can connect and discuss. The endless feedback also comes from the comments and reviews people leave on the fanfic they read. Often it is short and unhelpful, but other times reviews can mean a world of difference. More on that later..