“When I was a child, my mother lectured me on the evils of ‘gossip.’ She held a feather pillow and said, ‘If I tear this open, the feathers will fly to the four winds, and I could never get them back into the pillow. That is how it is when you say mean things about people.” - John Seigenthaler Sr.
Archive for July 31, 2007
Round Earth, Flat World
An article by Fareed Zakaria, one of the most accessible political commentator alive at this given moment. He reflects on the book ‘The World is Flat’ and teases out some of the main themes here. I found this line thought-provoking - ‘The flat economic world has been created by an extremely unflat political world. ‘ Nevertheless, it is interesting to note how as the economic world is being levelled, the political field is likely to be levelled as well. And the sole champion of free trade and democracy, will soon be turned on its head.
Rather disquieting is how disconnected I actually am from the bustling technological advances. The only technological term that I fully understood in the whole book was Wikipedia - my essay saviour. His litany of other supposedly prosaic IT applications and functions were a first for me. Reading this book made me realised just what a pre-millenium old fogey I am. -_-” I’m beginning to understand how my parents could have been left behind by technology a decade earlier.
