"Wherever culture is separated from the worship of God, it atrophies in ritualism and becomes degenerate."

So said Cardinal Joachim Meisner--the archbishop of Cologne--speaking at the opening of a new art museum yesterday.

There's your answer. Gridcosm has atrophied.

On second thought, no. Impossible.

Gridcosm is not ritualism. That's just the caffeine.

Gridcosm is not culture. It's just the web.