2/18/17

Facebook's New World Order

Facebook has a CEO who got lucky with one idea in college during the rapid growth phase of social media on the Internet. For whatever reason it was welcomed and Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire. Now of course he wants to rule the world, or rather, have the political thought of humanity exist within his vast leftist global empire on-line.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2017/02/op-ed-mark-zuckerbergs-manifesto-is-a-political-trainwreck/


Actually independence and nationalism are requisite for meaningful democratic politics. Strong national boundaries are needed for the possibility of ecological economic transition to develop from the present non-renewable economics. Change needs to happen in particular areas rather than sort of generally. Zuckerberg would like to form millions of people into little regional groups where they are given appropriate news of public concern. Like the broadcast media owned by the rich those concerns cannot really be in conflict with the way things are.


The Unibomber also wrote a manifesto. He also wanted to change the world to conform to a radical vision. If he had owned Facebook perhaps he would have required humanity to be brainwashed in planetary groups that would support his goals for a new world order.


Mark Zuckerberg should write a few books on environmental economic theory and let the sophomoric approaches to a new world order go.


http://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/2/18/14653542/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-manifesto-sapiens


Everybody wants to rule the world. Logically the first guys with preferred network locations would want to get in on the action. Facebook would morph like the planet eating blob into an organism containing everyone. All would be subject to Facebook's ability to know what they write as if they were a super-N.S.A. toying with it's prey.

Facebook would become the real political means of being with overwhelming power to raise up or put down those that make the global corporate agenda function more smoothly. As the present media hates Trump now except for some honest reporters like Rush Limbaugh, it would be able to coordinate and promote attacks on political systems anywhere.

Facebook's goal seems to be to move directly to Mussolini's corporatist utopia that failed in Nazi Germany but in a brave new world order might fulfill Mao's ideal state with the central committee being a planetary oligarchy dwarfing even the Chinese Communist Party. It is a logical, evil turn toward the dark side of the force.


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