Technology is INHERENTLY DEMOCRATIZING. We wouldn’t have modern western industrial democracy or a bourgeoisie middle class without the industrial part. Our own Revolutionary war occurred precisely because England’s colonial empire discouraged manufacturing industry anywhere in the Empire other than the home country. England wanted nothing more than to rip us off for our raw materials, which remains the chief characteristic of modern day globalist financier empire building in the form of DEBT IMPERIALISM wherein a 3rd World nation’s natural resources are, in fact, the collateral for loans from the World Bank or the IMF. Technology is a death threat to feudalist war lordism which typifies predatory capitalism and monopolist cartels. Technology requires an educated work force, a work force that is literate and informed and which will fight against tyranny rather than succomb to “1984” slogans and newspeak.
imho limited government requires unlimited natural resources. To access those resources —the price of energy and water has to keep falling.
“Technology is a death threat to feudalist war lordism which typifies predatory capitalism and monopolist cartels.”
Seems rather like predatory capitalism and monopolist cartels are adapting to, and finding ways to use this glorious technology for thier own ends. They are exploiting the hell out of it to gain or retain power and control, and the masses are the pawns, as always. There’s no shiny new peace and love world on the horizon. Sadly, the ugly realities perpetrated by highly adaptive predators, ‘warlords’ and government hacks are in the news every day.
Take a look at Amazon and Facebook and Google. They are monopolies. The Facebook and Google technology might be replaceable, but moving the customer base won't be. Amazon has enough physical plant, that it'd be hard to replicate. The only easy path for Google and Facebook replacement is if they commit business suicide.
The automobile was democratizing. The personal computer and personal blogs could be. But in general computer technology is driving centralization, not democratization.
A workforce that is raised in American Public schools will have none of those qualities. The purpose of Education is to create dependent interchangeable work units for an industrial order controlled by central bureaucrats that was the current order n the Soviet Union 50 years ago.
That “educated work force” in America depends on the replacement of the Public Schools altogether and the elimination of Federal involvement in education.
Globalist Free Traitors™ are de industrializing the USA making money at it while the USA becomes a weaker service based economy.
“Technology requires an educated work force, a work force that is literate and informed and which will fight against tyranny rather than succomb to “1984” slogans and newspeak.”
That’s quite an optimistic assessment given the ubiquitous leftist bent of high tech companies and areas. While most engineers are inherently conservative, the majority of younger people do not possess even a basic understanding of science, economics, or history.
1984 may have been off as few decades, but it has been shown to be more prescient than any of Orwell’s peers would have believed. I vacillate between the promise of opportunity and complete despair at our human nature.