Cyberspace as American Culture And what of American culture? Despite the relative decline of cyberspace discourse, different parts of the society continue to take hold of the Internet in their own ways: the libertarian left and the libertarian right both invest hopes for decentralization in the technology, one group identifying the Internet with democracy and the other group identifying it with markets. There remains a non-libertarian left, just barely, for which the Internet is purely an instrument of capitalist domination, and a non-libertarian right, now ascendant, for which the Internet is purely a vector of moral decay. It is a strange mapping, but from the perspective of American cultural constructions of technology it makes sense: the libertarian left and non-libertarian right draw on the country's communitarian traditions, either identifying with the technology or rejecting it, while the libertarian right and non-libertarian left are occupied largely with destroying institutions, likewise embracing the Internet as a tool or dismissing it as part of the old order.