Reply #114: Ha! The bit about the information age is a boondoggle. [View All]

[JDPriestly]

Do you live on information? I don't. I need a house; I need a steel (or wooden) frame for my bed -- produced by mining or logging. I need to travel -- ship, plane and car manufacturing. I need a paycheck -- for most people that means menial labor, or a step higher, industrial factory work. I need transportation -- which, thus far, pretty much means oil. Do I need information? -- probably not nearly as much as I have. Information age sounds good, but unless the computer, TV, radio, whatever vehicle, carrying the information is manufactured out of raw materials that are produced usually from the earth, there is no information age.

Marx advocated that to gain power, workers had to take control of the means of production. How ironic that we boast of having defeated Marxism, yet have lost control of the means of production of the things we most need to foreign interests, to foreign nationals. I don't know where I'm going on this, but this direction seems to be leading somewhere interesting.