Things are only likely to get from bad to worse, especially if and when most if not all political powers, existing and aspiring, right, left, autocratic dictatorial or fascist, theocratic, secular or anything in between, when they all graduate from the exact same schools of thought, learn and apply the same methodologies, and all aspire to rule by big brother absolute control and total supremacy.
There's no more ideology, philosophy or sane strategy in most of our existing or aspiring leadership programs of our times, just "Power for power's sake, personal benefits and the accumulation of huge vast wealth.
Most nations, their elections or grab of power, are turning into very divided nations, into mostly two major parts, something like two different tribes of a third undeveloped country. Choosing absolute sides of the political spectrum, fighting fiercely and brutally not just to advance their own or their leader's agenda, but to provoke, condemn and defeat the other, eventually annihilate the other.
Charlie Sykes, a famous radio show host said; "Politics has become a bizarre tribal world, in which voters and active participants will tolerate any bizarre behavior, any dishonesty, crudity and cruelty, any blatant lie, because the other side is always worse and an absolute enemy.
In most polls nowadays, the majority of people assume search engines are unbiased, while practically all as Face book, twitter, YouTube, Google and many other national or foreign sites, depend almost solely on algorithms, to personalize information based on what we all watch. They customize all info on earlier data they've collected earlier about us all along the way. More and more our computers monitors, our TVs, our daily habits, goings and visits, are all a kind of a one-way mirrors, reflecting fully our strict interests and instant inclinations, while observers are building their accurate algorithmic tables while watching us simply click !!
This constant and continual brainwashing/observing/monitoring, from all sources, makes us all live in increasingly narrow fixed walled rooms of thought, making it harder and harder to reach or agree on facts, and or any sense of reality, or even some common political logic. Algorithms, numbers and statistics are deciding for us all what to see or not to see, what we need to know or not know, what to decide upon, approve or negate, whom to look for from a variety of leaders and representatives.
While we should resist, or at least make sure all these are not keyed to well set programs, fixed demagogic and political crazy ideologies, let us make sure there's some independence from big brother indoctrination and thought policing of our modern times. Let me use a small example of how fixed we can all be sometimes and during some fazes of our lives, Here in the U.S, 78% of Democrats, and Democratic leaning independents said recently, that colleges and universities have a positive effect on the country and its youths. A majority of Republicans and leaning right American Republicans almost a staggering 60% of them have a negative view of these same institutions of higher learning . Our present day political institutions are only a clear aspect, reflecting these numbers.
We all thought originally, that all these free of charges and free of advertising and commercials, and available to all, all over the world, is the innovation of science thrown to us all as a gift, solely because it was a good idea of progress and scientific achievement, we all felt it was more good than harm, but it's now collectively being discovered that it's more perverse and serving ideologies of big fascist brothers, than practically any other tool of modern times, it's exploiting the populations by spreading misinformation and disinformation and fake news, cruelty and prejudice, spreading the non facts that support certain specific points of view, the entire Internet with its tools are playing with our brains grand time.
Finally, to claim that our world is becoming a much safer, better and more equitable and democratic place, Well , let's wait and see. No one in his or her right set of mind can assure anymore or be assertive and positive as to the future of humanity or its institutions.
My as always, many thanks for your patience and time.
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