World

Follow; the road beyond.

Read about the new next generation network in the papers and it made me think. We live in a world and at a time when interdependence between all parts of the world is increasing. We exchange more products, films, books, ideas, images than ever before. Potentially, that is an enormous possibility for building a human or global community. But at the same time we are also witnessing a terrible degradation of the quality of communication. I think this is because the common denominator of much of this exchange has been reduced to money. The monetarization of all forms of human commerce over the past centuries has reduced us to simple market functions. We are producers or consumers with the mediating role between the two poles being money.