If you want to see some spot-on observations on the way modern culture is heading (in the developed world at least), this online question and answer session with Reason magazine editor Nick Gillespie is a great read.
Reason is one of my favourite online magazines - their politics and worldview match mine closer than anything else I have read. Liberal with a lower case "l", and really in touch with our times. Here is a good example of Gillespie's thinking:
For the first time in human history, masses of people can make a huge number of choices. We can choose what we look like—whether through fashion, plastic surgery, or other forms of body modification. We can choose who we live with and who we sleep with, because many of the social and legal prohibitions that barred many types of couplings a mere 20 years ago are now gone. We’re more mobile, and we have more money, and it’s more possible to live the type of life we want, wherever we want. We have this terrible, terrible freedom to pick and choose, to live however we want. That is an incredible liberating, illuminating, and fascinating development. But it’s also a terrifying one for those who are fixated on controlling or regulating other people’s lives—socially, politically, or economically. And it is a very bad time to be one who wants to be in charge of other people.
Read the whole thing, it keeps getting better from there.
Reason is one of my favourite online magazines - their politics and worldview match mine closer than anything else I have read. Liberal with a lower case "l", and really in touch with our times. Here is a good example of Gillespie's thinking:
For the first time in human history, masses of people can make a huge number of choices. We can choose what we look like—whether through fashion, plastic surgery, or other forms of body modification. We can choose who we live with and who we sleep with, because many of the social and legal prohibitions that barred many types of couplings a mere 20 years ago are now gone. We’re more mobile, and we have more money, and it’s more possible to live the type of life we want, wherever we want. We have this terrible, terrible freedom to pick and choose, to live however we want. That is an incredible liberating, illuminating, and fascinating development. But it’s also a terrifying one for those who are fixated on controlling or regulating other people’s lives—socially, politically, or economically. And it is a very bad time to be one who wants to be in charge of other people.
Read the whole thing, it keeps getting better from there.
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