The elites changed before there was an Internet

The elites changed before there was an Internet. If we date real internet from the 90s we can date the elite change to post-WW2 with a real spike in the 1970s. I venture to suggest that the one percent now is made up primarily of the elite that did not emerge from the staid precincts of the old Hamptons and the one-time Newports.

Maybe that point is conceded but it suggests another one.

The system of which we are a part is not controlled by elites. Used yes. Taken advantage of certainly. Profited from, certainly. But what we have, whether corporate or government, Silicon or DC, is bigger than us.

It is why disciplines have morphed into thousands of compartments of expert knowledge which must all function somehow.

It is bigger than all of us and it controls us all.

It is, if you will, the reality we both understand and do not understand.

The posturing of today is people making believe they know what is happening.

Who can honestly move from there to the happy comprehension we once sensed we had?

We are venturers in a world that will be what it will be, not something that elites or even majority voters, in control of results, can actually control.

Whatever happens in 2016, I can hazard but one guess about our future.

We will do better to venture into theological realms to explain events than to assume we can opine with confidence on the basis of what we think we know.