Something to think about
Now just as the Inquisition and the Counter Reformation sought to block the Renaissance, so these gigantic corporations like Microsoft or Monsanto are seeking to block the planetary renaissance and this new possibility for capitalism by maintaining the dualistic systems of the domains of the extremely rich and the extremely poor. Microsoft wishes to own the new cultural ecology of the noosphere, and Monsanto, and other companies, are seeking to own the genome of plants, animals and humans. We may slide into a dark age of religious violence with multi-national corporations functioning as a tribal amphictyony of competing war lords so that our emergence to an enlightened planetary culture may have to wait a century or two.
-- William Irwin Thompson
posted by Lorenzo 2:32 PM
