The German philosopher, Jurgen Habermas, describes what has happened as "the refeudalization of the public sphere." That may sound like gobbledygook, but it's a phrase that packs a lot of meaning. The feudal system which thrived before the printing press democratized knowledge and made the idea of America thinkable, was a system in which wealth and power were intimately intertwined, and where knowledge played no mediating role whatsoever. The great mass of the people were ignorant. And their powerlessness was born of their ignorance.Gore probably wants to go back to the old days of the 1970's when they wasn't all that pesky competition.Read the whole speech
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Al Gore Praises two Socialists in speech today
Al Gore praised two socialists today in a speech on the media today.