Instant and effective communication across all borders will be the spur which drives the world to smaller, more effective units than the dying superstructures of the 20th century, whether political or economic. The new superstructures’ role will be organizational, supplying unity of direction for the natural contributions of individual people. For example, the newspaper is dying. The future of news is individual journalists reporting on events near them, and a web site organizing all of those autonomous contributions (perhaps with a user-driven, unpolitical rating system to separate informative, well-written pieces from the rest. The problem of too many contributions would be overcome creatively, like all problems). The “editorials” section of the newspaper is now, in the age of the web log, entirely obsolete.
Political superstructures, the USSR in the past and the USA in the future, are also on their way out. It will become more and more clear that a ponderous, top-heavy unilateral decision-maker only creates more inefficient economic friction, that it starves off the organic growth and development of the polity beneath it.
If government plays a role like a gardener to his plant, then the USA’s government is currently trying to rearrange the leaves in a way that will best absorb sunlight. Lunacy, and it will only result in damage to the plant: growth happens as a natural operation of the plant’s biological processes, dictatorial wishes of the gardener notwithstanding.
And so with political superstructures and the people they govern. People, trying to make a living, thinking and acting creatively, will provide enough growth to solve problems, to fill niches, to redistribute economic capital in a recession, to overcome all challenges. The government’s role is to provide a sense of context so a growth doesn’t become cancerous, eating up resources at the expense of the whole.
What Obama’s planners are doing is subsidizing the cancer. And profiting from it. Liars, cheaters and thieves, or incompetents. Either way, they’re role is harmful and unnecessary, and that’s why the future holds extinction for them.