... and so free enterprise was seen to be the winner. That's my take on most of the big problems of the last 20 years. That includes the rise of kooky Libertarian utopianists and the lack of government regulation of things like offshore drilling. You can call it a unipolar world, or hyper-capitalism but it's all talking about the same thing. There is no counterweight and no alternative to the plutocracy that's very quickly taking over the world.

It seems to me that it's going to get worse before a new ideology is born that challenges what we have now - and it's probably going to be bloody.

I'm hoping for new entities as nation-states that are born on the Internet and have no geographical boundaries. Something like Cory Doctorow's book, Eastern Standard Tribe.

Who wants to be a citizen of the Sift Nation? We'll have a better health care system than 4Chania.