Bruce Sterling provides the most gut-wrenching eye-melting opinion of Wikileaks and what it hath wrought I’ve come across (and reminds me of Wayne Porter)…

The Blast Shack: “While others stare in awe at Assange’s many otherworldly aspects — his hairstyle, his neatness, too-precise speech, his post-national life out of a laptop bag — I can recognize him as pure triple-A outsider geek. Man, I know a thousand modern weirdos like that, and every single one of them seems to be on my Twitter stream screaming support for Assange because they can recognize him as a brother and a class ally. They are in holy awe of him because, for the first time, their mostly-imaginary and lastingly resentful underclass has landed a serious blow in a public arena. Julian Assange has hacked a superpower.”

As Sterling ends this tour-de-disaster piece with… this is not going to end well.

Atlas shrugs indeed.