Internet and Religion

"In the great vacuum of meaning, in the silence of unspoken values, in
the vacancy of something large to stand for, something bigger than
oneself, technology – for better or worse – will shape our society.
Because values and meaning are scarce today, technology will
make our decisions for us. We’ll listen to technology because our
modern ears listen to little else. In the absence of other firm beliefs,
we’ll let technology steer. No other force is as powerful in shaping our
destiny. By imagining what technology wants we can imagine the
course of our culture." quite HARDCORE paper HERE

Defense Industry: Keep Paying Us or the Economy Dies

Defense giant Lockheed Martin had a totally sweet quarter, raking in $700 million and looking forward to the same this time next year. So it raises eyebrows when Lockheed’s anointed mouthpieces predict mass economic disaster if Congress touches the defense budget.

On Tuesday, the aerospace industry put out a report saying that chopping the defense budget would put over a million Americans out of work. Cuts that could total up to a trillion dollars over 10 years would “devastate the economy and the defense industrial base and undermine the national security of our country,” said Marion Blakeley, president of the Aerospace Industries Association, which sponsored the report.

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