But once you have the vast majority of the people of the world indoctrinated that, "the medium is the message," the network is the node, it will take a rather serious, enormous reality check to convince them otherwise.

Keep in mind that one of the basic devices of colonialism was to convert colonies to the money of the colonizer, to basically suck the networks dry.

Which served to convince the colonized the power of finance, even if they rebelled against the particular coin of the realm.

Yet we see what happens when profit totally trumps quality and the doors start falling off the planes.

The feedback has definitely turned negative.