Decided to ‘pen’ tonight’s blog from an iPad. This was much harder than first envisioned as not much seems functional in terms of writing text unless you are wired into the internet. This is an oversight from the folks at apple or another click in the mechanism moving us towards ubiquitous internet. I worry about that ubiquity right now because there is a real push from the corp world to further monetize the net, even so far as to limit how much non proprietary data moves across private wires. In other words, how can Netflix hope to cast on an ATT service?
I was alive when Ma bell got broken up and it feels like those days are long gone. In truth and in Trumps triumph it feels like we are moving towards corporate extraterritoriality. I.e. Corporate states. In such a world, fictionalized by myself and others, the corporations have all the power. We the people live on their land and follow their laws which supersede the liberties of the USA. Now this fiction edges closer to reality each day. Anyone who rents knows that you are basically living in such a world. Your recourse for civil rights violations is the courts and perhaps the media, but nobody tells the stories of redlining and far worse grievances anymore. With real estate president I can only imagine that his personal business interests will be improved by his political actions.
Regardless of what president hands us off to the corps, it is going to happen. I can only hope that I’ve gained a corporate foothold by then. Of course, I am not even trying to do so. Instead I am trying to open a Charter School and deliver next gen education to an audience that absolutely needs to be taught in a way more aligned with the world they live in.