Re:New NSA Documents Shine More Light into Black Box of Exec...
by api on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @01:49PM
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It's far worse in many other countries: China, Russia, even the UK and parts of the EU.
But the alarming thing to me is that totalitarian oligarchy seems to be the direction the whole world is moving. I can't think of any major nation or region in the world that isn't moving toward more concentration of power in fewer hands, less accountability, a more opaque system of government, more concentration of wealth, and less transparency.
For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, the world seems to have given up on the enlightenment -- or at least on the political aspects of it. We're going to keep the scientific and technical aspects, but politically we're going back to the dark ages. In the long term I think we're facing the very real potential of a technocratic dark age, which when it comes down to it is what Orwell, Huxley, and other prescient writers were warning us about.
But the alarming thing to me is that totalitarian oligarchy seems to be the direction the whole world is moving. I can't think of any major nation or region in the world that isn't moving toward more concentration of power in fewer hands, less accountability, a more opaque system of government, more concentration of wealth, and less transparency.
For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, the world seems to have given up on the enlightenment -- or at least on the political aspects of it. We're going to keep the scientific and technical aspects, but politically we're going back to the dark ages. In the long term I think we're facing the very real potential of a technocratic dark age, which when it comes down to it is what Orwell, Huxley, and other prescient writers were warning us about.