Presidential election, 2016

[Bob Butler 54]

Just watched Patriot's Day yesterday, Hollywood's take on the Boston Marathon bombings.  Did you know that you can't place a homemade pressure cooker bomb on a busy street without leaving a whole bunch of video images behind on surveillance cameras?  Did you know that some people can view a police state with overwhelming surveillance technology as heroic?

The world is definitely changing.  It has been definitely changing since the Agricultural Age gave way to the Industrial.  I see many crises as being driven in big part by new technology.  If nothing else, new groups of elites who make money in a new way are apt to want to trim the influence of the old elites.  As a broad rule of thumb, traditionalists attempting to suppress the new technology while clinging to old power structures often don't do very well.

Principled clinging to traditional standards will feel right for lots of folk, but...