Bigger is not necessarily Badder

I'm sure you can see my point, but let me elaborate on it.

The first move toward making things bigger - was in what we now call Civilization. People quickly learned, that the powerful could take from the weaker. And larger cities could have larger (and more powerful) armies.

That was not enough however, they had to be better equipped, and organized. And better organization was critical.

This trend towards ever bigger empires, culminated in the Roman Empire. And when it collapsed, a thousand years elapsed before the Modern World could be developed.

But organization could be overdone, as it was in the middle of the 20th Century. The Movies, and then Television created millions of people that acted as one - the Masses, who were not very bright, and wanted a strong person to lead them.

Very recently, in the last 20 years, or so. The Cloud has appeared - where large numbers of computers can be organized in a large numbers of ways - and rented to anyone. The blog I am using now, is stored on a cloud so efficiently, it is free! And so is YouTube, offered as a free service by Google.

Google can do this, because it is so big - and getting bigger all the time, because it is educating its users, and making them smarter, technically.

But they are not any smarter, socially.

This contrast between technical intelligence, and social stupidity is amazing - and so far, no one knows how to overcome it.