1. We saw Brown’s Labour Government run into serious turbulence when the blogger “Guido Fawkes” publish an e-mail from the Prime Minister’s Office on smear stories.
2. In Malaysia, the ruling party (Barisan Nasional) of the last 50 years suffered a major loss of Parliamentary seats from a two-thirds majority to 72 seat majority in the 2008 election.
What prompted this major change?
Bloggers have been clarifying the opaqueness of the political situation which in turn has helped mobilise the opposition parties. The Government arrested one blogger – Raja Petra Kamarudin on “anti-terrorism laws” but these charges could not be justified in a court of law. It appears that Raja Petra is outside Malaysia and he blogs no more. However, other bloggers are keeping up the vigilance .
What is this New Order – the previously almighty Government being blown off course by a single person (the blogger).
This New Order being Social Media – the use of modern communication technology so that people can collect and share information. This leads to systems being open, random and supportive.
As a result, we get transparency – single persons have the power to disseminate “hidden” information so that the masses can ask the “right” questions.
Everyone has to adapt to survive as this is part of human evolution. In a Democratic system, the incumbent can be changed by voters and replaced with a new Government that has adapted to the change. For example, in the USA, Obama successfully used Social Media to raise funds and get votes in his Presidential campaign. And, Obama is still using it.
Feng Shui is a study of the space and time dimensions. It forecasts major structural changes in society including an increase in the collective power of the individual person.
Social Media – here we come.
Michael Oon
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