Things Ain't That Bad

Wide use of the PC is still really modern. The vast majority of us were alive in an era when they weren’t so widely used. The internet is still brand spanking new on the grand scale of human history.

Each day sees more information become more readily available to more people on planet than the day before. American technology developed under the 1st Amendment of the American Constitution is so obviously beneficial to mankind, that no repressive government can ignore it or eliminate it. Although the internet in China is slow, the “Great Firewall” of China ain’t that big of a deal if you can search in English (it must be infinitely more effective on blocking information in Chinese), and China continues to aggressively teach their kids English at a younger and younger age. Globalization melds the world together, and because of the internet, English is obviously the world’s language.

Many people may be out of a job at the moment, shit may seem expensive, Bush was a big idiot, but the planet Earth is really a zillion times better than 30 years ago. The industrial revolution was a long long time ago. The technological revolution was a decade or so ago. The information revolution was a few years ago. The positive revolutions continue to get more frequent. Why wouldn’t this be good news to the revolutionary.
I finished reading 1984 on the internet, (it’s public domain in Canada), and it really got me thinking about all that China politics stuff again. A lot of that book is eerily shockingly similar to modern China, albeit absurdist in the book. With all the flaws in the Party, I think the modern leaders really do have mostly good intentions for the future. But because of the invention of the internet, the availability of information, and the steady increase in the educated class, China is sure to be moving towards a more reasonable, benevolent, and successful state than anything Orwellian.