Technology can just as easily be used to spread lies as it can be used to spread truth. Technology is a tool (then again, so is Obama ... haha).
Technology will not be Obama’s downfall ... incompetence will be.
SnakeDoc
Your is a great question. All tech or knowlege is a double-edged sword; some are provoked to ask questions that bolster freedom, while for many these things merely provide new avenues for indoctrination.
Mao Tse-Tung educated the peasantry simply so that he could propagandize them.
Ummm....I have to believe the tech is mostly his enemy, however.
I am a little older than you, and I do clearly remember the time when if you were conservative in my state, you felt just as if you were in a small rowboat in the middle of the ocean —profoundly lonely.
EVERY channel on the TV featured liberal journalists.
Things have changed very much —Rush came, and now we have MANY people who imitate him, and others who also have real conservative messages.
Things have really improved.
Slightly off-topic, but what do you have against gardening?
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Actually, I think this technology that you’re describing has lead to the fracturing and segmentation of society, into smaller and smaller groups ... as each group is able to find others similar to themselves, whereas they had to coalesce around larger groups in the past, and put aside many of the small differences.
Now, it’s the “small differences” that are the “badges” that are worn by people ... at the expense of the overall power of larger groups ...
It makes for a society which is constantly at war with itself, on all fronts, with all issues at all times ... :-)
When Obama shuts down the internet? I think if that ever happened all of his young supporters would drop him like a rock.
Fear ... the day
There are coming generations, that will kill others, parents, neighbors and all those that their leaders says need to be destroyed. Much the same as the Hitler Youth Brigade did without suffering any conscience remorse or sorrow. The reasons will be ... for the good of the earth, population control, eliminating those that hate, those that refuse to accept the uniting of one world control, International government, no private property, probably no money, and Valium added to the water supply.
Does anyone doubt this is exacting the direction we are headed? It takes years to change thought. We are well on the way to this end goal. I know, it sounds too extreme, yet look at what has happened since the Internet exploded into being, etc. Or since TV came to every house.
Look at morals, honesty, government, abortions, marriage, homosexuality, the down grading of the Christians, the Churches persecuted, education, not flying Americas flag in schools now, etc., etc., , good no longer a concept, and evil has prospered.
Thought control is the aim. We are far down this road.
We must stop this run away train, we are on the road to ruin.
God help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.
You might want to check out “Speaking my Mind” in audiobook format, to hear Reagan’s most powerful work.