(via @pupakat)
The great grandson of Baha’i's founder Baha’u’llah, Shoghi Effendi spoke of a technology which eerily jives with social media (especially Twitter).
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“A mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised, embracing the whole planet, freed from national hindrances and restrictions, and functioning with marvellous swiftness and perfect regularity…The press will, under such a system, while giving full scope to the expression of the diversified views and convictions of mankind, cease to be mischievously manipulated by vested interests, whether private or public, and will be liberated from the influence of contending governments and peoples.”From Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha’u’llah, p. 203-204
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It's funny. The selected text would fit right into our times, but all the other things predicted are not yet there, and some of them appear almost frightening –
yet, I think it is great that some utopian ideas have become a reality.
I have read many of Shoghi Effendi's works. The astounding insight, reaching far into the future are numerous. He never claimed any special ability to divine future events. Just really insightful extrapulation from what he knew at the time.