Confusion Reigns

World and Blog Remain


Dear Reader,

Y our Musical Patriot is still here, still reading, still attempting to understand how America and the world has come to this point.  The upshot, for me, is that the oligarchs and plutocrats have taken another step toward tightening their grip on our economy by the installation of their man, Our Military Leader (a.k.a. OML) in the White House. 

Internet co-founder Tim Berners-Lee

And yet there is push-back -- push-back from many sources.  Average citizens are getting highly involved in the political and election processes.  Democrats, even socialist-type Democrats, are winning virtually everywhere in special elections and primaries.  It is a hopeful development.  (See last week's New York Times for an article on this development.)

The European Union, aided by major American Internet players, threw this and other bloggers for a loop recently with new laws -- laws which, in truth, have no validity in the U.S. as far as I have been able to determine.

Now comes news of the Solid research program being run by Internet co-founder Timothy Berners-Lee.  This new research effort attempts to restore the original version of the Internet as an open source of information, not one controlled by big financial companies.  While his goal does not seem to me to represent a new utopia, it does at least hold the promise of a reduction in spying and profiteering "social media" outfits.  Let's hope so, at the least.