Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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The fact is that soaking the rich is very popular in addition to being the right thing to do and so my complaints about American ignorance and laziness shouldn't be taken as pining for an aristocracy of the best and the brightest (which is always just pining for an aristocracy of the rich and the whitest who inevitably fancy themselves the best and the brightest and can usually back up their claim with hired muscle), so much as pining for more actually-responsive institutions and for better, more reality-based, education-agitation-organizing to bring about more actually-responsive institutions when all is said and done. Part of that responsiveness would arise via greater democratization of national politics, but another part can only arise through a planetary leveling and democratization that exposes people to real-world consequences of ongoing historical and environmental crimes from which we are benefiting and from the costs of which we have been insulated.

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