I've always believed that communication... especially the kind where you can't turn back once you've become dependent on it, would be the end of the Soviet Union. To compete with the rest of the world, I figured they'd have to go somewhere as a nation where their governance would be like a fish out of water... and therefore they'd most likely implode.
The more communication I see the better I like it... you just need to be willing to take the bad with the good. The narcissism is pretty bad right now because we're really ailing as a race that is recognizing that we're on the brink of some potentially scary stuff. So at least we're getting chatty and my prayer (or daily mantra) is that a marvelous side effect will be this world-rounded group hug that people eventually don't want to let go of... the "empathetic embrace" mentioned in the video.
This video by Jeremy Rifkin points out that there's good evidence that empathy is the evolving part of our brain's core competency. There's an incredibly exciting upside to that...
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