The Us Is A Business-run Huckster Society,

Technologies Can Be Liberating, But It Can Also Be A Tool Of Coercion And Control.

The Soviet Union Was Pretty Much What Lenin And Trotsky Said It Was.

What Wikileaks Exposed Is Kind Of Superficial In A Way.

I Don't Use The Social Media But I Can See The Effects In My Own Correspondence. I Get A Ton Of Correspondence. It Used To Be Hard Copy And Now It's A Very Limited Amount Of Actual Letters People Write. So It's Mostly Email.

France Has Not Been Able To Come To Terms With The Fact That It's Not A Major Power Anymore. I Mean Even Before The Second World War Paris Was One Of The Main Centers Of Intellectual And Cultural Life. But Now Paris Is A Kind Of Subsidiary Of Germany, Their Traditional Enemy And They Can't Come To Terms With It.