A Deo Lumen

Like George Friedman in the realm of global geopolitics, Michael Barone is an expert with very few peers in his field, American political history.  Both view the next century (or in Friedman’s case, The Next 100 Years) as an American Century.  It is hard to argue against them.

But when we narrow the zoom and look more closely within American culture and the shifting communication environment that surrounds us, and within that ecology try to look a century down the road, what do we see?

That is the subject of my peculiar interest.  And as I was fortunate enough to have study political philosophy and our nation’s founding under Dr. Stephen Schneck, I am concerned at how far from our Constitutional moorings we have already shifted, now that we enter into an inherently difficult cultural transition into a globally networked environment.

I won’t go further into those trends and concerns which most interest me at this point, but I will say that while Barone’s video here shows a keen ability to look back at American history to make sense of today’s trends–which is relevant perspective, without a doubt–nonetheless I am not convinced any analysis of today’s politics is as complete as it must be until it grapples with the specific precedents in human communication changes in history that most closely compare to today.

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