Marshal McLuhan is the guideon here. His observation that technology is inherently democratizing is overlooked by technophobes of all stripes. We wouldn’t have democratic republican governments and their subsequent societies on this planet were it not for the Industrial Revolution which was a derivative of the Florentine Renaissance.
Technology, or better said, the method of mind that allows it to flourish, is shaping society in many ways that society does not detect. For the first time in human history there is mass access to virtually all data; very little control over who accesses what. The Internet is in its infancy.
I have interacted with and understood as many humans as you or any other career cynic on this planet. You simply need to see how much worse it could have been without the Nikola Teslas or DaVincis or hard working farmers or soccer moms of the world. Cynics think they see things clearly, without illusion. So do paranoiacs. You need to realize that ANY sense of what might happen in the future, even your planning what to have for lunch, is fundamentally an illusion. Illusions are the essence of creative invention. Read a biography of Nikola Tesla and see what he did with illusions.
Treat Asperger’s? You don’t want to treat Asperger’s, you want to harness it like a Niagra Falls. I’d vote for a candidate with Asperger’s before I’d vote for a machine politician any day of the week. We need to learn how to give every citizen a case of Asperger’s
>>You sure have a lot of... FAITH... in the global electronic network.
>>You obviously believe the Draper/White nonsense and that the... SAVIOR OF MANKIND... is the Internet.
>>I’m with lepton. You haven’t really interacted with - or understood - many humans.
>>What do they treat Asperger’s with these days, anyway?
>> We need to learn how to give every citizen a case of Asperger’s
Boy howdy, I called that one.
>> I have interacted with and understood as many humans as you or any other career cynic on this planet.
No, you haven’t.
I used to be a naïve little thing like you, believing everybody could work everything out if they just talked like adults to one another.
You know, like the Canadian career academic Marshall McLuhan.
30 years in the workforce, with the last 5 of it being underemployed with reality beating me in the face, slowly made me realize that I had indeed been a naïve fool. Humans are nasty creatures who, if not checked by any higher authority, will take every opportunity to dehumanize, demoralize, and dominate their fellow members of the species.
McLuhan, much like our current President, never had a real job. Great work, if you can get it. One’s pragmatism tends to suffer in ivory towers, though. It does, however, leave one free to propose all sorts of hogwash that would never work in real life. Like Marxism, or Randian utopias where radical individualism turns all basement dwellers into Der Ubermenchen, or what have you.
>> technophobes of all stripes.
LOL! I’m a Luddite-Amish computer programmer & technician!
>> You simply need to see how much worse it could have been without the Nikola Teslas or DaVincis or hard working farmers or soccer moms of the world.
People with real jobs! Huzzah! Amazing that you actually admire some people with real jobs.
I love Tesla and Leonardo DaVinci, by the way. Absolute geniuses. They had their mistakes, of course, but they were very far-thinking men. Even before the Internet could grab them and assimilate them Akira-style.
BY THE WAY,
The elimination of Islam is not a Christian goal per se. Muslims, unlike many New Atheists these days, believe that there was a historical Jesus.
There IS a group in America, though, that wants to eliminate Abrahamic religion in general; Christianity and Islam in particular. That group right now is using Islam (as well as many other growing social movements) as a grinding stone to chip away at Christianity, because Christianity is their biggest threat.
It’s this group’s mantras that you seem to be parroting.
The Progressive elite. Or as I like to call them, Gramscian Marxists.