OK, instead of me telling you "what's so" like John Travolta in Get Shorty, might the process of meandering around the web trying to make better sense of the world through it, be more engaging? OK, I'm trying that now.
Ezra Klein's economic blog (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein) leads me to a book titled Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
. Kindle edition $4, which kind of illustrates the point. Amazon may be replacing most aspects of publishing, as well as book stores.
When the next really radical change comes, how will we be able to deal with it? and if it's beyond the capability of most people to understand it, how will we be able to trust those who will make the decisions?
I don't say "will we", but "how will we", not out of a happy confidence in the future, but because only if we can is there any real point in thinking and talking about it. Otherwise it's just idle, if possibly entertaining, talk like "Who do you think will win the game?" I don't have a happy confidence in the future, but really don't know. So many parts of the world have been put through so many catastrophes that they couldn't have imagined previously. The U.S. hasn't had a catastrophe on a fraction of the scale of World War II (the way Europe and Russia experienced it) since 1865.
So the chances may be a billion to one (there's no way to know what they are really), but I can only find any sense of dignity in living as if I, with others, can find a way to cope with whatever crisis may come along, in large part by having accountable leaders such as I don't believe we have at present. I don't believe the quality of the leaders is as big a problem as the lack of a real and effective linkage between us and them.
Although I haven't been a human resources executive, or any executive involved in hiring employees for business, it seems safe to say that the process by which we hire our leaders is ludicrous. The process isn't usually referred to as "hiring", but why not? It seems like a reassertion of our dignity to do so. We tend to see them as gods or heroes, or scoundrels or worse.
[to be continued]
Ezra Klein's economic blog (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein) leads me to a book titled Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
. Kindle edition $4, which kind of illustrates the point. Amazon may be replacing most aspects of publishing, as well as book stores.When the next really radical change comes, how will we be able to deal with it? and if it's beyond the capability of most people to understand it, how will we be able to trust those who will make the decisions?
I don't say "will we", but "how will we", not out of a happy confidence in the future, but because only if we can is there any real point in thinking and talking about it. Otherwise it's just idle, if possibly entertaining, talk like "Who do you think will win the game?" I don't have a happy confidence in the future, but really don't know. So many parts of the world have been put through so many catastrophes that they couldn't have imagined previously. The U.S. hasn't had a catastrophe on a fraction of the scale of World War II (the way Europe and Russia experienced it) since 1865.
So the chances may be a billion to one (there's no way to know what they are really), but I can only find any sense of dignity in living as if I, with others, can find a way to cope with whatever crisis may come along, in large part by having accountable leaders such as I don't believe we have at present. I don't believe the quality of the leaders is as big a problem as the lack of a real and effective linkage between us and them.
Although I haven't been a human resources executive, or any executive involved in hiring employees for business, it seems safe to say that the process by which we hire our leaders is ludicrous. The process isn't usually referred to as "hiring", but why not? It seems like a reassertion of our dignity to do so. We tend to see them as gods or heroes, or scoundrels or worse.
[to be continued]
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