The Disruption of Truth
Technology has finally broken the Media's choke-hold of Society's Collective Conscience and I don't know if that is a good thing or not. Truth and fact have been disrupted, making way for the rule of emotion and intuition over rationality and knowledge. I don't think The Zuck ever stopped to think about the true consequences of making people more connected all over the world. But the reality is now in the open, and we can all attest to it now: Interconnectedness drives instability . What started with the seemingly innocuous (and commendable) goal allowing people to share baby pictures among family members morphed into allowing activists to organize political demonstrations. And then giving Alt-Right trolls a megaphone . Goading is so much fun! Until the reaction is border militias with elite-training itching to kill imaginary ISIS invaders at the SW border with very non-imaginary AR15s. Actual bloody revolutions still rage, efficiently kindled by the smartphone&