Phil Agre's analysis of the responses to the David Nobel's articles My messages debunking the cyberspace ideology have made some people happy. Those people are sick of the hype, and are relieved to know that they're not alone. But other people are upset, and these upset people have kept me thinking away at the problem. The upset people often argue that their wild-eyed millennialism is simply an expression of their "optimism" -- the implication being that their critics have some kind of personality problem. This argument is simplistic, not to mention offensive. Mindless optimism and mindless pessimism are equally useless. What's needed, instead, is analysis. And the problem with cyberspace is not that it is disproportionate to the wondrous reality, but that it is analytically *wrong* -- that is, it describes the world inaccurately.