Continually, in the context of education reform, school to work, and workforce training and retraining, we hear how things aren't as they used to be, how things are changing very rapidly in this "information age," how the paradigm is shifting.  What does all this mean, and what does it mean for our way of life as afforded us by the founding documents of this nation?

Here, we will explore the paradigm shift and what it is really all about.

Democracy: a government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meetings or any form of direct expression results in mobocracy. Attitudes towards property is communistic — negating property rights. Attitude towards the law is that the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, and anarchy.

U.S. Government Training Manual No. 2000-25, WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, November 30, 1928

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