PrintApril 2, 2011
The World Electronic Mob Is Taking Us...Where?
We're passengers on a wild ride into uncharted -- and dangerous -- territory with no one driving. Electronic technology has eroded our political, civil, commercial, cultural, social, and linguistic frameworks; everyone in the world has been tossed together to make what we can. Those capable and flexible enough will create new structures in which they will survive; Darwin will clean up the rest. As always, the journey will be rough and full of surprises and there's no turning back.Why? Because cell phones and computers give us limitless, cheap, anytime information and communication almost everywhere and those have consequences. Politics has belonged to politicians who swindled the voters periodically at elections, and left town before the swindle was recognized. They didn't have to repeat until after the swindle was forgotten by most; then those who remembered could be bribed in a new swindle. Elections are always run by government; in most places in varying degrees, so are the...(Read Full Article)
