Time magazine's "Person of the Year" is "You"; in the words of the Houston Chronicle, the annual edition "cited the shift from institutions to individuals — citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it."
For those looking for proof of the individual's triumph over institutional power, one need search no further than this: US Army might break Goodyear strike headlines this article, which begins:
The US Army is considering measures to force striking workers back to their jobs at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Kansas in the face of a looming shortage of tyres for Humvee trucks and other military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan.The strike includes 17,000 individuals: not digital enough, one presumes. Posted by jane at December 17, 2006 02:04 PM | TrackBack