This whole story is pitched in the most dialectic terms - you're either with us, or against us. But this fails to indicate there is a third way - we can use te

This whole story is pitched in the most dialectic terms - you're either with us, or against us. But this fails to indicate there is a third way - we can use technology to make peace far more readily and easily than we use it to make war. I've got more Syrian, Iranian, and Libyan friends than ever before - and it would not be possible without technology being used to overcome cultural barriers to understanding. Yet the hatred and vitriol still flows. We are expected to be nationalist/patriot members of society, but when we personally make the decision to extend that society beyond the artificial borders constructed by the state to which we grant sovereign control, obviously someone is going to lose out. In the case of technology being used peacefully, its those who profit from war machines - military-industrial producers of hate and violence - who we must stand up to. Until such a time as the Western public is dissolved of its subservience to thugs and criminals - those who run the military-industrial establishment which corrupts all of humankind - we will continue to be oppressed between two forks of the same argument.