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 e...