I don't think anything happened. We are just seeing the reality that was there all along. Prior to the smartphone and the web we didn't know. Now we know.
I used to be a soldier. Marched hundreds of miles with hundreds of other soldiers in ranks and files. Embedded amongst them like an atom in a crystal lattice.
I had no idea what was…
I don't think anything happened. We are just seeing the reality that was there all along. Prior to the smartphone and the web we didn't know. Now we know.
I used to be a soldier. Marched hundreds of miles with hundreds of other soldiers in ranks and files. Embedded amongst them like an atom in a crystal lattice.
I had no idea what was in the hearts and minds of all those soldiers all around me.
Today, via the web and smartphones every single one of them has global broadcasting voice and a globally listening ear and the ability to form, lose and reform alliances, groups almost instantly.
And that's what's happening.
The 'soldiers' haven't changed. They just manifest differently because now they can.
We have to wake up that this is our world.
There's always been very unpleasant stuff in it that we knew about and just had to accept.
The numbers of criminals.
The numbers of corrupt politicians.
The inequality of wealth where 'we' do the work, 'they' take the benefit.
And so on. Lots of things. We are used to them.
Now here's another truth uncovered: the mass is unreasoning.
I don't think anything happened. We are just seeing the reality that was there all along. Prior to the smartphone and the web we didn't know. Now we know.
I used to be a soldier. Marched hundreds of miles with hundreds of other soldiers in ranks and files. Embedded amongst them like an atom in a crystal lattice.
I had no idea what was in the hearts and minds of all those soldiers all around me.
Today, via the web and smartphones every single one of them has global broadcasting voice and a globally listening ear and the ability to form, lose and reform alliances, groups almost instantly.
And that's what's happening.
The 'soldiers' haven't changed. They just manifest differently because now they can.
We have to wake up that this is our world.
There's always been very unpleasant stuff in it that we knew about and just had to accept.
The numbers of criminals.
The numbers of corrupt politicians.
The inequality of wealth where 'we' do the work, 'they' take the benefit.
And so on. Lots of things. We are used to them.
Now here's another truth uncovered: the mass is unreasoning.