In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Let's all step back for a second and go back 25 years into the past and discuss the future.
Taken from (and with thanks) an excellent post at Daily Kos :: Re-reading Toffler's 3rd waveAlvin Toffler wrote The Third Wave in 1979, 25 years ago. We should be re-reading it now. It is the last of his three books which explained future trends, and the waves were a metaphor for huge changes in human society--the first wave being the wave of the agricultural society; the second, industrialization, and the third, the technological. Toffler describes the coming super-struggle where relationships will be restructured, including families, corporations, communications, and politics. He explains that two basic camps of political development will emerge--a Second Wave civilization dedicated to preserving the core of society such as the nuclear family, the giant corporation, and the politics of a pseudorepresentative government and the Third Wavers which recognizes that the problems of the world such as poverty, energy, and the breakdown of family relationships cannot be salvaged in the frame of the Second Wave world. He talks about a time when the two camps will sharply divide.
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This may be the time we are now entering. He says that the Second Wave defenders will fight against minorities, resist diversity, preach the nuclear family, and put down concerns about the environment. He also says that the most dangerous part of the coming battle is in the political realm...he says, too, that these changes will not come in a single climatic moment, but will take place over decades and involve thousands of innovations. If Second Wave groups resist change and are shortsighted and unimaginative, the risks of violence will be escalated.
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Here we are, caught between the Second and Third Wave at a time in history that may change, improve, or even destroy humanity. Politics on the Internet is clearly one of the innovations that Toffler foresaw.
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