Brand produced one of the first ( and still one of the most widely quoted ) pieces of journalism to link corporation - and government-funded computer research to new communalist ideals : " spacewar : fanatic life and symbolic death among the computer bums . "
Add to this the fact that perceptions about the economy are worsening week by week , and one might have expected the central theme of the democratic campaign to be " throw the bums out . "
Yet , angered over a declining economy , cuts in pay and pensions , rising unemployment , and deepening corruption , a significant portion of the greek public embraced a " throw the bums out " approach to this past weekend 's parliamentary elections .