Communication, Organization, Political Philosophy

One factor in social organization is communication, so developments in the latter can correlate with those in the former.  For example, most notably, it is likely no coincidence, that the ascendance of Democracy in Modern Political Philosophy is approximately contemporaneous with the decentralization of Medieval Knowledge repositories effected by the invention of the printing press.  The twentieth-century is characterized by the emergence of electric media, with radio benefiting FDR and Churchill, and TV serving the photogenic JFK and Reagan well, while the skyrocketing costs of advertising in them has impacted electoral processes.  Currently, human society is just entering the Digital Age, the implications of which are only beginning to appear.  Global decentralization, i. e. the Internet, is the most immediate development, facilitated by the actualization of one of Leibniz' visions, though possibility not as he anticipated--a universal language, i. e. the binary system underlying digitization.  Now, while decentralization correlates with Democracy, it is also proving to be a breeding ground of Plutocracy, as is evidenced by the efficiency of instantaneous international market processes, via the quasi-universal language compromised by Arabic numerals and various alphabetic abbreviations, enabled by the general digitization of wealth.  So, while the rise of Digital communication continues the Democratization of the past several centuries, it has not left Feudal Oligarchism completely behind.