On 01/20/14 17:19 +0100, Cari Machet wrote:
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:31 PM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Dan White wrote:
change, particularly at the legislative level. However, that path needs charismatic leaders, i.e. Lawrence Lessig, to actually run for office.
leaders??? aarrrghhh
Charisma is needed to implement true change within our *existing* government. Anarchy is an equally valid alternative path to true freedom, but not one that am a proponent of.
lawrence has substance besides being able to orate? > show me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig I picked him as an example, since he's fairly well known, and has been thrown around as a potential congressional candidate, or an employee of the executive branch. He's someone with potential to change the legal landscape in a significant way. Unfortunately he chose the route to change the process rather than implement direct change (by becoming elected), which has been a failure to date.
there are many solutions many many problems > a major one is the neo-liberal capitalist state is alive and well in you and i > hacking that is not easy
No, it's certainly not. This is where having good leadership helps. Much in the way that coding is action in our community, becoming elected (implementing law) is action in the political world, and nothing can be done to change our government than to elect ~like minded individuals.
the wikileaks capitalistic blob embound by fierce ego w/out ethics is but one example of the blindness
levels of intellect that are socially engineered to be very low - in the US particularly - suck life out so making a big data drop - as ellsberg learned - on a public with no brain tells the powers they have succeeded in their disgusting social engineering
I have a much higher opinion of the American public. The problem isn't that we have too much influence over our government, but not enough. The ultimate fix is to somehow replace our legislative branch with true democracy.
ever tried speaking to a wall?
the solutions are constant and findable ... everyday moving toward them ... in estonia they passed a law where 1st graders have to learn code ... now to implement the law....
-- Dan White