1. For the first time in history, the general public has access to real information.
It’s additive!!! And is it ever moving fast. Ordinary (intelligent) people everywhere are becoming MORE INFORMED than the insiders. And the standard of what is means to be informed is relentlessly pushing skyward. I have seen these standards move incredibility in just the last 3 years.
The pretenders and frauds have to be very careful in this environment.
Wordism cannot stand against the Internet.
I am to the point where I think the Courts are going to fall to the Internet. And Congress cannot continue in its present form. These institutions are becoming too ridiculous.
In the 1970s the WW II generation stumbled into its dotage and the software industry furnished a coordination platform that revolutionized production and distribution.
Congress, the Courts, and the whole regulatory apparatus moved not one iota. They remain stuck in their 19th century manifestation.
The Baby Boom generation is stumbling into its dotage (it’s mentality is in the Teddy Roosevelt era), clueless that the Internet has abolished ideology in a positive feedback loop that is relentlessly pushing the intelligent segment of public skyward.
The Courts and Congress are beyond reform. Law and accounting practices, academic consulting, and the whole regulatory apparatus (with its ridiculous and relentless posturing) are increasingly becoming jokes. These whole damn arenas are just too atavistic.
Too many highly intelligent people have access to an audience unencumbered by the mommy professors, academic journals, and university press gatekeepers.
You have got to see the positive feedback loop in intellectual standards to understand the Internet. It is a mechanism for forcing intellectual standards skyward.
Political Correctness (and ideology in general) cannot stand against this. I am sure it is impossible.
#1 by backbaygrouch4 on 06/16/2008 - 7:51 am
“For the first time in history, the general public has access to real information.” Yes, and it becoming obvious that the establishment types mostly either do not have it, are not intelligent enough to understand it, ignore it, or are too damned lazy to bother. Weigh that last one most heavily. Mankind may be headed towards a meritocracy, which will not be guided by Mommy Professors, but by the collective will (wisdom) of the people. Call it a Virtual Moot.
#2 by Simmons on 06/16/2008 - 8:03 am
I mostly agree with what Dave and AFKAN have to say. For over ten years now it has been interesting and alot of fun disagreeing with people who previously wore the unblemished robes of authority.
Still there are limits, anyone of the right leaning websites out there practice “respectable” censorship, and what left sites there are expend serious energy protecting their flock. Then there are those freewheeling sites that fall into the ideology of “anti-semetism” the catchall limiting trip into the punji stick trap of ideology.
The “respectable” form still exists so I wouldn’t blow your own horns all that much just yet.