Know what I long for?!

[Barb]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Barb, be of good cheer and let it be known that nothing has really changed. Nothing except the advent of the information age the past 100 years. People always held thoughts but throughout history it was far easier to hold them to oneself then to voice them lest it turn out that your the only one who feels that way. The internet and mass media has left countless know that they are NOT the only ones with a particular viewpoint.
What information technology has done is help to wipe away the illusion that there ever WAS total unity.....

Perhaps you are right, RW, but where there may have not been total unity, there was workability, and they were successul.

[Barb]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Now you've really gone and done it...and made my day. *sniff*

[RandyWayne]

I think of threads here that are often started in the morning and by the afternoon it is 6-10 pages long already. Do you realize that such a conversation in the "olden days" between the same number of people would have taken several weeks to several months?

Information and communication is the ULTIMATE Pandora's box. For instance, we are not to covet what are neighbors have, yet until the information age, we didn't KNOW what most of our neighbors had. Now we know how the rich & famous live, what Britney buys on her shopping binges, what Leona Helmsly left her dog, how big of a yacht Paul Alan (MS co-founder) and Larry Ellison (or Oracle) have and how they are competing against each other to have the biggest.
It also lets one church in Wisconsin know what another Church in CA is doing. And it puts people who have similar beliefs, misgivings, visions together where before they though they were, to quote the Highlander, "The only one!".

But just like Pandora's box had HOPE in it, the information age also promises that thoughts (no matter how ludicrous OR good) will never die out. AND anyone can potentially capture the same number of ears and eyes as the President of the United States!