Interesting times…

Tunisian , Egyptian and now Yemani rebellions of the common individual against traditional power and it’s traditional opposition. Demographics, employment rates, education and digital connectedness has predicted this. Obama’s use of social media in the last election has begun the process in the west. It remains to be seen how this will spread and continue globally.

New attention to civil liberties, long curtailed in the name of security against the ghostly enemy terrorism, is gaining in importance once again. The actions of left and right politics is so blurred as to be one in the same for all intents and purposes. The left argues against the right until they come to power and then assume the policies of the right. Similarly the right rails against the policies of the left until they come to power whereupon they adopt left policies as their own. Strategic positioning (the tail wagging the dog)and political posturing plain and simple. Small wonder the electorate is so jaundiced. A sure sign of bankrupt social collective policy being influenced by wonton individual special interest policy.

During the seventies left leaning social governments were seen as big, expensive and overly involved in big brother control of society. Right leaning philosophers advocated smaller government and more individual control of one’s life – more individual freedom both economically and politically. Today the roles have reversed, most conservative governents are burgeoning big brother enterprises dipping deep into deficit to maintain tight security through civil and military means, paying special attention to economic interests and buying votes all the while decreasing individual freedom.

Post baby boom youth are feeling their opportunity coming as the old traditional pre digital-age wanes and struggles to maintain their world. Who maintains or wins the control of information will determine the new path to the future.