The Post-Modern Legacy?

We live in an increasingly global world.  It used to be that we didn't know what was happening in another country until the letters finally reached our mailboxes.  Not only that, we live in an increasingly technology driven world, such that those letters have finally been turned into instantaneous emails, news reports, and blog postings, all pushed to our smart phones, tablets, and laptops whenever we feel like checking.  This new way of living has both its positives, but also its negatives, though.  Similarly, we live in a world where the Apple iPhone might be designed in America but its manufactured in another country altogether.  More So, when we have trouble working our iPhones, we end up calling tech support and in most cases, those people aren't answering our phone calls from the same country.  The question we have to ask is, have we bettered our way of living or have we worsened it?  

Another issue that we face as a society is that of money.  Everything seems to be driven by money rather than for the better good of society.  Schools all take federal funding but they vehemently discriminate against students who have learning disabilities because those of us who have LD's just happen to learn differently but are considered to have a mental illness.  Simply put, the majority of society is still ignorant even with a smartphone in their pockets.  It would seem that even though we have made advancements as a society, we have begun to generate a more segregated society, where its no longer just class boundaries or wealth, but also our IQ levels.  In other words, society still works on more subtle principles of slavery, they just come in the form of burger flippers and gas station attendants.  

To continue on a similar theme from another blog posting, our increasing reliance on technology is growing to become a ticking time bomb similar to the scale we faced during the attack on Pearl Harbor.  We put everything on the internet that shouldn't even be connected to the internet unless it has a secure connection.  In addition, we don't upgrade what needs to be upgraded and end up with extremely vulnerable computer systems connected to the internet.  Our inability to recognize the risks is leaving our entire country vulnerable to attacks that could render our financial system, air traffic control system, and multiple other systems useless.  

If we are going to consider this current era we live in as a post-modern era, than one is to assume that we have already advanced to a place where risks on the internet have been mitigated.  Similarly, we would be a society that understands that all students deserve and innately possess the right to an education.  Let's ensure that what is written about our era speaks for the values of our country and not simply to the value of a dollar or a small subset of society.