Punksters, we live in a transnational world. We work and play on the transnational Internet. Our computers and our cryptography transcend the evil empires. Transnationalize yourself; and swim like a fish through the sea of the nation-states.
With apologies to Mao,
S a n d y
I have found myself writing things with nearly the same revolutionary bent to congresional e-mail addresses. Reading what Sandy has written, it finally struck me that the world we are envisioning and fighting to can very easily be cast as a communist/socialist movement. On the other-hand, you can also envision an anarchist future much like Gibson's novells where everyone is a free agent and thus out for his own good: capitalism. Lets have a discussion as to what political organization we ultimately want to bring about. If this has already been done, then please send me references. I hope a world to come with an omnipresent network and widespread public key encryption. National governments remain, but in a much diminished roll. A global government comes into being. Represenative democracy is augumented with the option of direct representation. Everyone has a professional represenative who is authorized and required to cast their vote on issues which are appropriate for his domain. At anytime, a voter can exercise his own right to vote directly, thus reducing my represenative's voting power by one. There are represenatives at levels which might be consistent with the current scheme: city, county, state, national, and global. I believe that the inertia of the massess will give represenatives in the larger domains the leway they require to impliment necessary but less than popular policies. Perhaps it should be implimented so that the larger the domain, the larger the percentage required to change a policy in that domain.