Re: 2015

On Sep 27, 11:39 pm, Joe Strout <j...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <aranders-E3AA10.22523927092...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Alan Anderson <arand...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Jonathan" <wr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Soon, the collective weight and intelligence of the masses
will decide on all matters of importance, and in real time.

That's a depressingly pessimistic prediction. "Collective intelligence"
is amazingly low

Not always; it depends on how it's organized. See
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385721706/> for example.

and "the masses" tend to consider celebrity and
entertainment to be important.

Well, true. Not sure what can be done about that.

Best,
- Joe

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First off I don't see where Johnathan has posted in reply to my
comments.
Second, your faith and allegience to the ideals this nation and most
nations were founded to support are woefully lacking
Third, your lack of faith is only exceeded by your lack of vision and
knowledge.

As to the discussion you are attempting to start in the face of my
suggestion, your conclusions are based on the asinine presumption that
what entertains people and engages their idle curiousity is the same
thing that is important to them and motivates them and directs their
efforts.

The fact is that wealth is spread more evenly than at any other time
in human history. That great amounts of liquid assets are in the
hands of millions of people. And these people all have common
political interests in the global marketplace.

This will inevitably lead to the next great development in human
history - the end of the nation state as we know them today. The end
of the right of governments to kill people, to steal from people and
to lie to people. This will bring about the end to many difficulties
that now seem intractable and will bring about an age of relative
peace stability and wealth aginst which this age will appear poor
indeed - in the more privileged of nations.


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