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RE: The short knight of TV conventions;

In the national conventions we see a remanent of past times, Don
Quixote de la Mancha making speeches and giving interviews about
the illusionary cult of lower taxes,( without touching Social
Security, DOD, and Medicare ) with the Sancho Pansa's of PBS,
shaking their heads in the broadcast booth. UNREAL !

The first wave ( according to Toffler ) was feudal agriculture,
the second industrial nation states, the third wave is
international, global, planetary, or even galactic
communications. The real global issues; the concerns of the Earth
Summit at Rio de Janeiro: environment, population, production and
distribution of wealth, a global society with a new world view,
smart enough, fast enough, wise enough, kind enough, to prosper;
are not discussed at political conventions. 

The current social political structure of the modern world, first
wave to second, was largely created by the amour piercing cross
and long bows. Feudal estates depended on the military power of
castles and knights. When the French knights fell to the long
bows of the English at Agincourd ( 1415 ) and castles walls could
be pierced by canon, feudal regionalism declined and nationalism,
mass armies, and federal system expanded their power. The new
nations depended on some level rational thought, industrialism,
science and the consent, if not active participation, of the
governed. We have lived since in nation states, with strong
central governments, factories, cities, taxes, regulation, strong
leaders and parliaments, universities, stock exchanges, and other
bureaucracies that could support mass production armies and
territorial empires. 

Until 1972, American political conventions depended on the mass
production of votes by political machines. Regional power
brokers, mayors and governors, came together to pick a national
ticket. Television was the amour piercing weapon of traditional
political power. Now the convention is only an event made for TV.
At the same time the walls between nation states are being blown
down, torn down like the Berlin wall, pierced by the canons of
world markets, telecommunications and new age politics. Therefore
both the process and the content seems old and largely
irrelevant.

We are now using the new amour piercing weapons. Real social,
political and military power is in communications technology.
Small, fast, smart flexible groups creating new wealth and power.
Internationalism is reflected in the 30 or so country codes that
receive the Synergy Journals. The modern age was a conscious
rasing experience. Local provincialism, superstitions, and very
limited world views gave way to discovery and adventure. Our view
of ourselves and our world changed in fundamental ways. If the
first wave was feudal, the second nation states, the third wave
is international, global, planetary, or even galactic. Our world
views must change just as they did in the first renascence.

So the old KNIGHT's still take the field. The romantic literature
of knights and armor became popular well after the reality had
long gone. In the national conventions we see a remanent of past
times, like Don Quixote de la Mancha and his Sancho Pansa,
shaking his head in the broadcast booth. The Synergy Journal does
narrow casting and maybe more important.

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