Reynolds has been pushing this on his blog, so I gave it a read. Here's an interesting quote
"A level of suspicion and confusion we haven't had before." That's right. And it's made worse by the increasing politicization of Silicon Valley, and the transformation of its leaders from rebels into what Joel Kotkin calls "the new oligarchs," people who once talked about technology as liberation, but who now seem more interested in using technology as an instrument of control. It's not just NSA spying; it's that the companies gather data on everyone, with comparatively little legal oversight.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." This meshes with my assertion that it is a Gramscian phenomenon. They take the cultural high ground and then subjugate the rest of society according to their whims. So we get same sex marriage not because of a groundswell of grassroots support, but the very opposite that seeks to suppress the grassroots and impose it from above.
Yet the sheep fall into line eventually. Things like this have been happening for as long as I remember. Back in 63, the little kids like I was at the time would recite the Lord's Prayer each morning at school. In 63, the Supreme Court said no, you can't do that anymore. Was this a result of a popular uprising? No. Years later, President Reagan mentioned Prayer in schools, but nothing came of it. Now 50 years later, if any political leader tried to re-institute this practice, it would cause a firestorm of protest. Just sayin'.
You wonder why the culture is dying? This is how. It's all in the plan.
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