Dispatches from the Front Lines of the
Information Revolutions
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Dangerous Stupidity
Ostriches, lift your heads. We are in serious trouble.
As the U.S. continues to exert political, economic and cultural global dominance with aggressive arrogance, much of the rest of the world is moving further away from U.S. interests, having less invested in ‘the system’, and increasing needs and opportunities for motivated self interests.
Militant religious fundamentalism, political terrorism and covert insurgencies, coupled with technological access, economic resourcefulness and alliances of convenience with growing global shadow-worlds of crime and corruption, are intent on giving the ‘the West’ a run for its money.
Current U.S. actions along the path of spreading ‘freedom and democracy’ through military intervention and force, is a war crime and it is treason. For it will lead very rapidly to the near bankruptcy of the U.S. economy, with dangerously harmful global aftershocks. This is the very intended strategic objective of the adversaries of long-held Western global dominance.
Such actions can easily lead to further reactionary and aggressive mobilizations, incursions and assaults, virally spreading amid competing ideological fictions and co-opted popular movements.
The resulting, ever more pervasive terrorization of our social psyche, with ubiquitous surveillance, assaults on personal privacies and cultural antagonisms, will dramatically and unforeseeably alter the motivations, intents and aspirations of next generations, while jeopardizing our increasingly fragile local-global ecological health.
Are there realistic and realizable counteractions to this most dangerous stupidity?
3/05
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The Real Global Divide
The digital divide is a distraction that fails to address the nature of growing global disparities.
The real, widening global divide is between governments’ and corporate vested interests and actions, and the local sustainability interests of civil society and the ecological health of planet Earth.
Our deeply concerning global economic and cultural divides are rooted in this most dangerous rift between ideologically blinding ignorance, and our shared hopes for a better future.
The Information Society must not just be driven by technological development. It must be about conversations, learning, shared responsibilities and a better understanding of our place in the world; humane intentions achievable with or without computers, new media or the Internet.
11/05
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