I don't think I was arguing for eliminating property rights. I'm trying to understand at a philosophical level what we're doing with all of culture. It's a question of what the foundations of culture really are.

Remember, I say towards the end of the article: "It would be easy to take this analysis cynically and to conclude that morality is an illusion. Once you eliminate the religious reasons to respect privacy, maybe there are no such reasons at all, so we should all be wanton criminals. That’s not what I’m saying here. There is an enlightened case for moral values, I think, but it’s not what most of us have in mind in our secular practices."

I understand that philosophical scrutiny will seem subversive to those who have an overblown or naive conception of what's philosophically questonable. But that's a general problem of how intellectual elites fit into a society of the less reflective masses.

By the way, I've written that article on hyperreality and it should be coming out next week. It's tentatively called "Hyperreality: from the Mind to Civilization and Virtual Reality."