The Day That The Soviets Officially Crossed

Today We Are Again Witnessing The Emergence Of Transnational Elites ... [whose] Ties Cut Across National Boundaries ...it Is Likely That Before Long The Social Elites Of Most Of The More Advanced Countries Will Be Highly Internationalist Or Globalist In Spirit And Outlook ... The Nation-state Is Gradually Yielding Its Sovereignty... Further Progress Will Require Greater American Sacrifices. More Intensive Efforts To Shape A New World Monetary Structure Will Have To Be Undertaken, With Some Consequent Risk To The Present Relatively Favorable American Position.

The Language Of The Internet Is English, And An Overwhelming Proportion Of The Global Computer Chatter Also Originates From America, Influencing The Content Of Global Conversation.

We Have Actually Experienced In Recent Months A Dramatic Demonstration Of An Unprecedented Intelligence Failure, Perhaps The Most Significant Intelligence Failure In The History Of The United States.

Our World Is Integrated To An Unprecedented Degree, While The Global Political Awakening Is Injecting Into Interstate Relations An Intense Amount Of Tension, Emotion, Even Irrationality, Which Could Cumulatively Produce Circumstances That Preclude An Effective And Genuinely Shared Universal Response To New Global Problems.

In The Technotronic Society The Trend Would Seem To Be Towards The Aggregation Of The Individual Support Of Millions Of Uncoordinated Citizens, Easily Within The Reach Of Magnetic And Attractive Personalities Exploiting The Latest Communications Techniques To Manipulate Emotions And Control Reason.