Like so many other countries and societies throughout history, America has always been plagued more by the ‘enemies within’ than those without. The quote generally [mis]attributed to Cicero certainly applies with force:
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within…
For over a decade, the father of virtual reality, Jaron Lanier has been preaching about our increasingly regressive state of neoteny in America. The moment has now arrived where I believe we’re about to see a confluence of forces, as they say. And however, by whatever means, for whatever purpose, to whomever’s benefit or detriment […]