Foreign Affairs
The amount of good information now available, at no cost or very little cost - amazes me. Only one thing amazes me more - the inability of most people to understand it, or use it.
America now consists of two groups - the vast majority (at least 90 percent) who know little, and but have political power - and a small minority who know a great deal, but have little political power.
The know-nothings still have a great deal of power, because of their numbers - but their power in the long run, cannot last. The only question is - how long it will take, for the long run to take effect?
No one knows the answer to this question - but it probably will take one or two generations - or about 30 - 50 years, when most of us will be dead.
If we date the beginnings of the present era to 1990, when the computer became powerful, and also when the Gulf War began - we are clearly in the middle of a great change - the result of which, we cannot predict.
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