re-posted from an lj reply i wrote...

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"...control of thought, speech, expression, belief, faith and communication.

We are currently in the 'Information age' right?
This is the peak of the cycle...
...the expansion of knowledge...
...the 'evolution' of 'memes'...
...and we are far from free.

Sign the Media Carta today...
...www.mediacarta.org

Know Your Enemy!
(Rage Against The Machine)"

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i've been reading interesting articles that theorize that what was once 'demand' powered supply, has now become a supply powered demand...
...now that the media, the corporations, the top, as it were... defines the bottom, the masses, the demand... the evolution of ideas stagnates, and you get a purely profit based feed-back system, where we are all increasingly considered as statistics, or mallable (sp?) consumers, another node in a system that streamlines itself into obscurity.

they put it better than i ever could.

i agree we're not free too, but not just in the common sense, but literally... sure, we have 'economic' freedom, but that freedom is purely reliant on a system, and is therefore not free. True freedom is too scary a prospect for man, it involves risk, uncertainty, and hard work, heh.

By 'peak of the cycle' i meant the peak of this cycle... who knows what the peak of the next one will be... and i doubt i'll be alive to see it... but you never know...