Technology is not Bigoted

In my upcoming book, "Avoiding the Blues", I mention how the advancements which politics and corporations have brought us are poised to bring about their demise.  The last 24 hours have shown this yet again.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the UK is in the midst of the 2010 parliamentary race.  As the world now knows he called a woman "bigoted" while on the campaign trail.  The fact that a human being called another a bigot is not newsworthy in and of itself.  Stuff like this happens on Main Street on a constant basis.

The fact that an elected official, the Prime Minister no less, was the culprit makes it newsworthy.  Somehow the elected office means, to most, that these particular humans are something extraordinary - in the true sense of the word.  Why should these humans somehow be considered to be something more than ordinary?  Sure they got elected (well, in most cases) to office.  They have had to suffer through much scrutiny of their every move.  That can't be easy.  They live in the public eye.  That is most definitely painful.  But all of this does not change the fact that, at the end of the day, they must lie down to sleep like the rest of us.  They are, indeed, only human.

Had the PM not been wearing a microphone; had television coverage not become as ubiquitous; had the need for the media to capture every second of a candidate's campaign not existed; had the ability to transmit news around the world within minutes not existed; had consumers not wanted to turn all of this into some sort of reality TV show.  If only.  Some would still be under the impression that people in the public eye are somehow extraordinary.

Surprise!!  They are not.

I love technology.



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