I want to note that the schools are not just the neglected, archaic dinosaurs of 18th-century Industrial Revolution models… it is true they are that but they are changing because the leaders of modern industry are forward-thinking - unfortunately for us. We are moving into a future where every form of economic activity is to be reduced to a “job”, a set of rote tasks requiring little more than hand-eye coordination and the capacity to follow a decision-making flowchart.
Our rulers still believe in communism, that is, in complete State ownership and central-planning of every aspect of society and the economy. When you and I look at the Information Revolution (computers, PCs, Internet, “gadget” technology, etc.) we see the possibilities for de-centralization, distributed decision-making and autonomous entrepreneurialism. But our overlords see quite the opposite… they see more opportunities for expanding the control-grid, regimenting daily life, central-planning, and so on.
They are, in fact, moving to “capture” and “tame” the Internet. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Microsoft - among others that I won’t mention - are part of this gang of technology-tamers. On the extreme end, you have the RIAA and MPAA playing the “heel”… they are the mean, old “property-rights” conservatives by comparison to the young, fresh, vibrant and “relevant” tech giants. But make no mistake, there is an iron fist behind the velvet glove. Whether this gambit will work in the long run has yet to be seen.
This taming over the tech universe is part of the larger war to centralize all economic and social power into a single, central point. The cell-phone and the Internet are having a regularizing effect on the entire globe and this regularization bodes ill for liberty through secession and slowing down or reverse the long process of political aggregation which has been underway.
We are being regularized into point-and-click robots. Every vocation is to consist of a limited set of manual tasks and a corresponding set of point-and-click routines on a computer or mobile device in order to facilitate central tracking and control. The computer can be seen as the ultimate engine of centralized command and control every bit as much as it can be seen as an engine of decentralization.
It is the height of folly to underestimate the people who have been dominating the pinnacles of world power as far back as memory goes. They have not stayed on top of the pile by refusing to change. They’ve always stayed ahead of the curve and they’re continuing to do so* today.
Clayton -
I’ll give the back-story for this link if someone asks