Re: And yet
"Still, it hardly seems fair to criticize our particular point in time so harshly, esp in comparison to such preceding jewels..."
I will not deny that the tendency to do this sort of thing is not new. What definitely IS new though is the greater and greater ease with which new technical means facilitate global surveillance and power abuse. And that seems hell-bent on blowing up in our faces some time real soon, if things keep going the way they have been lately...