Many have heard of Cecil Rhodes, the biggest advocate of imperialism and the domination by European nations of the countries of the rest of the world, as an entitlement.

Interesting tidbit..Rhodes, the richest man in the world, at the time, (due to his mining activities) wanted to "recover" the United States - returning us to be a possession of the British Empire.

This is where the Rhodes Scholars were supposed to help do.

Just reading an interview with the author has convinced me to buy this book. The meme "surveillance capitalism" has been out there for at least four years; but this book is a 660 page philosophical tome.

I can think of seven different timescales in which changes seem to be happening right about now. Of course, you can probably take any point in time and construct such an edifice since everything is changing all the time, but this seems to be a moment in which it is particularly compelling to do so. Anyway, here they are.

Saturday April 29, 1916
Dublin, Ireland - Irish Rebels Continue to Battle British Troops

Irish Rebels at the Barricades