Social networking molds and the end of world hierarchys

There's a reason the armies have commanders. There's a reason orchestras have conductors. There is one reason why, in the great universities, the doctors are not attacked by social justice fighters. And there's a reason why the last major network organization experiment that the Reformation ended up restoring the hierarchy.

Niall Ferguson's Analysis

The “is a universally accepted truth, which today we live in a world on the grid, in which everyone and everything are connected. The conclusion is that traditional hierarchical structures -- not only states, but also churches, parties and corporations -- are found in various stages of crisis and drop”. So writes the famous historian Niall Ferguson in <x2Wall Street Journal”.

“nets govern not only in the business kingdom. Even in politics, the organisation of parties and their machinery filled with electoral campaigns financed by “crodged Ending” and viral messages on social networks. Money, once a monopoly of state, is being questioned by Bitcoin and other cryptovatluts, which do not require central banks to manage, only algorithms of consensus. But in all the excitement of the superconnection era, have we forgotten why hierarchys were born? Perhaps we underestimate the dangers of a world without a legitimate hierarchy? It's true, few people cry yesterday's hierarchies.

But cyberspace is by no means the utopia where we all become equally powerful citizens, free to tell the truth in the face of those who have power. It has become a realm of nightmare of ideological polarization, extreme visions and false news.

The most alarming thing has been the transformation of cyberspace into “Kiberia”, not to talk about “Kibercalifatin”: a dark and unlawed kingdom, where evil actors, ranging from Russian trolls to users of I SIS, can work without punishment to damage the institutional foundations of democracy. As Henry Kissinger correctly noted, the Internet has recreated the human state of nature presented by the English philosopher of the 20th century. V II, Thomas Hobbs. We should not be surprised. Neither history nor science predicted that everything would be fantastic, in a world of giant online networks, on the contrary.

And now that it becomes clear that a world on the grid may be an anarchist world, we're beginning to see, just as previous generations have, the goods of hierarchy. The former public sphere had its defects, but this young woman has no effective defenders. The Korean threat cannot be eliminated from the network response. A group on Facebook can't solve anything, more than the storm of a tourr or a hashtag.

There's a reason the armies have commanders. There's a reason orchestras have conductors. There is one reason why, in the great universities, the doctors are not attacked by social justice fighters. And there's a reason why the last major network organization experiment that the Reformation ended up restoring the hierarchy. There is still hope for hierarchy. The pope remains an object of authority and honor despite the turmoil of the Catholic Church in Rome. Revolutions constantly affect Middle Eastern countries, yet the region's monarchs have been the most stable regimes. Man is a social animal, of course, but history has taught us to respect hierarchy as preferable anarchy, and to prefer traditional hierarchys instead of usurpors”. / W SJ prepare: The world..