The world is flattening people

After being some 100 or so pages in Thomas Friedman's latest book, "The World Is Flat", I have come to the conclusion of several things. Most importantly, the book makes me wonder why in the hell someone like Friedman would write such a basic book on globalization. It is written in the same kind of format that a book like Globalization for Dummies is written, except without the yellow marketing behind it. (Friedman's book also comes with a shit load of exclamation points as well)
What seems to be missing from the piece is what the hell does all of the discussion mean? Why is it that Friedman and other Americans that like to chime in about how globalization works don't seem to want to think about all the people out there who are not connect and for that fact, don't want to be. The digitial divide as it is called, is still climbing higher and higher.
digital divide is the term commonly used when describing the people that have it vs. the people that do not get it. While all the white people in suburbia are happily connected to the internet, there is still a majority of people that have not the slightest clue how the whole thing works on any level.

It seemed to me that the only thing so far that got flat was Friedman's thought process of who technology is not getting to the people that need it the most. Instead of information being exchanged between people, we are developing a culture of litigation and marketing, too serious downfalls of community. In order for people to be able to work together to debate issues of their own seperate communities, we as a collective need to sort through them in this way. The internet could be used to assist with things like this, but the capitalist side has allowed thins like spam and fraud to gain so much power and momentum for the web that the people that could use it the most, writers, workers are totally disinfrancised from the concept because of the overwhelming control shady business has.
"It's not their fault, they are just attempting to make whatever they can in a free market economy..."
When is our society, even a slight percentage going to begin to look at these issues and begin to debate them? The other book I am reading, John Adams, lived at a point where a simillar discussion took place, right before the US began the War for the freedoms which we don't even understand anymore. Back then, there was respect and debate at the same time--not this mudslinging media circus we have today. Our technology is clouding people's judgements of the way that things are.
Do I keep getting off topic? Well, it doesn't matter anyway, no one but me reads these long ass synopsis of our current climate-mostly because I seriously thing that people are no longer really interested in a discourse about where we are going as a country, they just wanna get rid of all them people that do not agree with the statement, "On Earth as it is in Texas."

Well, Texas is not even close to a global economy and the reality is that the old west mentality, the eye for an eye crap is not going to work against terrorists or people that are connected to them. This homeland security twaddle is just that--another line drawn in the sand that the binLaden's of the world are just laughing at. Why bomb us again when we are spending so much money on nothing that it will virtually bancrupt us anyway.

But that doesn't matter either!

So confusing and so philisophical, it is hard to think about because we don't even know who is right-the scary part is that we are going to find out years from now who was really right and because of technology, my blog might make much longer than I ever do (ya never know) and 100 years from now, when historians are showing that it was because we didn't pay attention to history and we once again allowed the religious zealots to run the country, you'll see this and find time to crack a smile.