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April 09, 2009

Evolution, cyber economics and political karma

... otherwise known as Thursday's linkage fest.

Modern life's pressures may be hastening human evolution. Very interesting piece. But I predict that if science and technology continue to progress at present rates that at some point in the no so distant future human evolution will be rendered moot by scientific and technological interventions.

Michael Kinsley, who along with the late, great William F. Buckley, Jr. - both master practitioners of dry wit (Buckley having been the supreme grandmaster of all time) - has long been one of my favorite political intellectuals. This past Monday he tackled the central question vexing both the mainstream media and big-time blogs - how to generate income and how that shapes the entire process - with Life After Newspapers. It may seem a boring topic but how these things pan out will play a significant role in our collective near-future.

Also at WaPo, Michael Gerson cites a recent Pew poll and ponders polarizing politics and President Obama's role in it. Interestingly, Tom Carter recently tackled the same general subject but from a different angle with The Myth of Bipartisanship. Personally, I come down somewhere inbetween the two. Partisanship serves a purpose but has been perverted by the likes of Karl Rove, Stephen Marks, Floyd Brown and Lee Atwater on the Republican side and James Carville and Rahm Emanuel (whose current role Gergon ignores) on the Democratic side into a hyper-partisanship that is predicated upon winning by destroying. Partisanship doesn't have to mean being disagreeable while disagreeing.

Posted by Kevin at April 9, 2009 08:09 AM