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*grin* There was 14+ page thread about this awhile back in this forum called "Where is Our Locke?" or something like that. That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread.
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Dude locke, im dear sorry to say but nothing like that will ever happen. This world is greedy and wouldn't give in or really listen to someone unknown. And also in EG and such books related, the world webs(forums) are central and theres only one. So everyone has acess where you have to belong to a site to have acces to one forum copared to EG-Shadow Books. With what i said earlier, governments only listen to themselves and no one else, corruption has taken over the once trustworthy and honest governments of the world. But it would be cool to have a mysterious Locke roaming forums leaving revolutionary statements and doing "good" for the world. But unrealistic.
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Well, the big reason that there won't be a Locke anytime soon is that there is no major global crisis or world government. The concept of world domination makes no sense for the next 100 years. Reminds me of a P.J. O'Rourke quote--"The U.N. Charter, as written, only makes sense for one thing: Defending Earth from Martian invasion." If buggers attack, and a world government forms, then power could conceivably be concentrated enough for one person to have the influence of a Locke.
As it stands, the power of a single voice amplified by the web is a lot greater than ever before. Know why Dan Rather's retiring in disgrace, and for that matter part of the reason we still have a President Bush? Powerline (the bloggers who exposed the fraud in the military records story) and SBVT had far more influence than similar people could have had, say, in 1960.
Give it 100 years and an alien invasion...and then maybe 2 brilliant 11 year olds will end World War V.
And yes, were OSC to become Locke, the likely result would be...President Miller? Zell would be my guess for Card's favorite politician at the moment.
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There are plenty of political blogs on the web... the problem is just that there aren't any *outstanding* ones. And if there are great essayists out on the web, wouldn't it be hard to find them, with the millions of political blogs on the web?
Maybe I'm being a bit cynical.
I almost fell out of my chair laughing at aragorn's reply: "The world HAD a Locke. He lived in the 1600's."
but then again, the world in Ender's Game had a Locke in the 1600s too. hmm.
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What did the Locke in the 1600's have to say anyways? I'm wondering why Peter chose Locke as his Pseudonym.
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He basically was the one who created the thoughts of freedom and human liberties if I'm not mistaken... The USA owes a lot to him if I'm correct... though I might have my philosophers mixed up.
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We already have a John Locke. The only problem is, he's stranded on a desert island with polar bears, mysterious hatches, and invisible monsters at the moment ...
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I'm with Edgehopper, the only way to get control of the entire world right now is through take-over, as in warfare and bloodshed. And even if the US put all it's money and power into building its military, and more importantly, even if all us citizens were behind it, the US still wouldn't be able to. And right now, if the US can't no one can (sorry, but at this point in history thems the cards in military strength, though that is quite likely to change when China comes of age). For one man to be chosen peaceably as the leader of all man kind there has to be a reason for all the nations in the world (or most of them) to give up independence; alien invasion being the most popular reason.
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Hot soup, Denis Diderot was a memeber of the French Enlightenment who believed that the one of the paths towards human progress was through education and making knowledge available to everyone. To this end, he created the Encyclopedia.
The Internet would send Denis into paroxysms of delight. It's what he was trying to create raised to the power of 1000. If you wanted to find out about something, say John Locke, all you need to do is type it into a little box and press enter and poof, there you go. He would, however, likely be driven to despair that people seem unwilling or unable to use this astoundingly revolutionary resource.
Ignorance isn't a shameful thing. Everyone is exteremely ignorant about a wide variety of very important things. Remaining ignorant, especially in the face of the astounding resources right within your grasp, is, however, something to be ashamed of.
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